Amazing Love

Amazing Love, Amazing Love

Amazing Love, Amazing Love

All I know is I once was lost but now I'm found

I was blind but now I see, and I know He will do for you what He's done for me

 

~ A prayer for my niece, Vanessa

 

The soldiers assigned to the governor took Jesus into the governor's palace and got the entire brigade together for some fun.

They stripped him and dressed him in a red toga. They plaited a crown from branches of a thorn bush and set it on his head.

They put a stick in his right hand for a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mocking reverence: "Bravo, King of the Jews!" they said.

"Bravo!" Then they spit on him and hit him on the head with the stick. When they had had their fun, they took off the toga and put his own clothes back on him.

Then they proceeded out to the crucifixion. Matthew 27:27-31 The Message.

 

After they had finished nailing him to the cross and were waiting for him to die, they whiled away the time by throwing dice for his clothes.

Above his head they had posted the criminal charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Matthew 27:35-37 The Message.

From noon to three, the whole earth was dark. Around mid-afternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?"

which means, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" But Jesus, again crying loudly, breathed his last. Matthew 27:45-46, 50 The Message.

 

It must have been the hardest thing He ever done

When God the Father sacrificed His only Son

The one that He most cherished gave his life away

And by His love He made a better way

 

~ Bob Fitts "Sacrifice"

 

A pure, faithful, unconditional love. A love that breaks in order to mould. A love that pursues. A love that rises above man-made artifices. A love that sacrifices.

 

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