hello! it's november. looks like one of my wishes at the start of the year came true. TIME FLIES!
"...[The] question is, "What are you going to do with the time that is given to you." Frodo Baggins of the Shire had but one purpose: to reach the fires of Mordor and destroy the Ring that ruled Middle Earth. Jesus Christ of Nazareth had but one purpose: to reach the cross on Calvary and destroy the grip of Sin on Man. Sounds similiar? only thing is, Frodo Baggins is not real. The blood of Christ is real.
Come with me to the hill of Calvary. Watch as the soldiers shove the Carpenter to the ground and stretch his arms against the beams. One presses a knee against a forearm and a spike against a hand. Jesus turns his face toward the nail just as the soldier lifts the hammer to strike it.
Couldn't Jesus have stopped him? With a flex of the biceps, with a clench of the fist, he could have resisted. Is this not the same hand that stilled the sea? Summoned the dead? But the fist doesn't clench....and the moment is aborted.
The mallet rings and the skins rips and the blood begins to drip, then rush. Then the questions follow. Why? Why didn't Jesus resist?
"Because he loved us," we reply. That is true, wonderfully true, but--forgive me--only partially true. There is more to his reason. He saw something that made him stay. As the soldier pressed his arm, Jesus rolled his head to the side, and with his cheek resting on the wood he saw: A mallet?Yes. A nail? Yes. The soldier's hand?Yes. But he saw something else. Between his hand and the wood, there was a list. A long list. A list of our mistakes: our lusts and lies and greedy moments and prodigal years. THe bad attitudes from last week. There, in broad daylight for all of heaven to see, was a list of your mistakes.
He saw the list! He knew the price of those sins was death. He knew the source of those sins was you, and since he couldn't bear the thought of eternity without you, he chose the nails.
*adapted from '3:16', Max Lucado
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