|
Because of You
One morning, in a city in the Middle East, a group of people awoke with an overwhelming sadness. The day before they had not only lost a friend, but also seen him die in the most awful circumstances. As they got dressed they could not have imagined in their wildest dreams what they were going to experience. At the end of a week that had begun with triumph and adulation before turning to unfairness, corruption, heartbreak, tears, pain and death, was to come an unbelievable joy and the realisation that all along Jesus had been right.
Nothing in all the world’s history comes close to Easter.
Carl Boberg wrote: And when I think that God His Son not sparing, sent Him to die – I scarce can take it in, when he wrote the hymn ‘How Great Thou Art.’ Maybe you, like me, scarce can take it in! Nothing comes near to it. It’s difficult to fully comprehend and it’s amazing for one reason. That reason isn’t that the creator of the universe shed eternal clothes and spent 33 years in a body that would have been hungry, hurting, tempted, tired, sad and demoralised.
It isn’t that he walked at least 1500 miles during his 3-year ministry and never once used his supernatural powers to whisk him, when his feet must have ached like mad, between places. It isn’t that he must have longed to say ‘Beam me up Scotty’ each time his disciples looked at him and said ‘Duh!’ or that he still put his absolute trust in them to establish a worldwide church after they’d done a disappearing act when he was arrested.
It isn’t that, with a wave of his hand, he could’ve said to Caiaphas and Pilate ‘Hasta la vista, baby!’ or on the cross just said to the army of angels watching on ‘OK guys let’s end this and make mincemeat of Satan and his crew’.
God did all of this because, you are the apple of his eye, special, He never stops thinking about you and he has great plans for you. Which means:
The most amazing thing about Good Friday and Easter Day is that He did it Because of You.
Lord when things don’t go as I think they should, give me the faith to trust you. You are my rock and my hope is in you alone. When things are happening that I don’t understand, help me simply to know that you are always good, you love me and you have good things planned for me.|
Thank you for the amazing gift of Easter. Your love for me is astonishing and although I may never fully take it in I fall on my knees before you now, saying thank you that you went through all of this Because of Me. Amen
RKF
|