In the beginning Adam and Eve were intended to live forever in the garden under the protection an constant fellowship with God. After the fall Adam and Eve chose disobediance over eternal life. God grieved the loss of fellowship. He needed a way to bring mankind back into fellowship. Abraham reopened that door. Thus tearing down the door of the Earth Cuerse. But by then most of mankind did not know God.
God then sent his only son to earth as a man/God to feel, walk, live, love and hurt like men. Somehow he had to pay for the seperation from God for all mankind for all time. Thus allowing each of us the opertunity to re-enter fellowship with the Father and once again know eternal life and all the blessings of his Kingdome come to earth.
Jesus was able to feel the struggle we all face to walk away from temtation. He was able to feel our pain, guilt, hate, love, fear, sadness with out ever sinning. He had to carry the torture of our sins with every lash of the wip. He carried our guilt and humilitation when striped, scurged, and scorned in the public square. The weight of our transgressions made the crown of thorns hardly noticeable by comparison.
Torture beyond the ability of mortal man to survive was his loving purpose that day.
Nailled to the cross, stabbed in the side all after a torture that would have killed any mortal man. finally, as he slipped from his mortal body back into his eternal body he declaired "It is finished"!
What was finnished?
All that God had prommised to anyone who would choose to accept his sacrifice from a life of depravity and sin from a life of struggle and pain from a life of the inability to walk once more in his favor , love and grace; both here and eteranlly.
His reserection kicked open the door that Man locked behind himself thousands of years before. But it was his sacrifice that paid the toll for all.
What now you say?
Sin still exists. Pain still exists. poverty, hate, lust, war, still exists.
We no longer have to carry the weight of those things.
God has made a way for all those who acdcept this marvelous gift of salvation to be able to live this life in the presence of God's covenant here on earth as well as heaven.
Choose you this day who you will follow!
Be it a life of sin, greed, sadness, lack, and suffering; or a life of freedom, service, empowered by hios covenant.
Choose life today. Choose Jesus!
Simply acknowelege our own nature of weekness ans sin. Accept his free gift to wash away all the guit and sin and become NEW again. Start over with a clean slate esach day.
When you no longer choose to carry this burden you are free to love like never before. You are able to make a difference in this world as an expression of his love to the world.
May this word touch your heart in a powerfull way. May you experiance Easter as God intended.
May you become an example of Gods Love and grace to a world lacking in a God kind of love.
AMEN!
