| | ...so today is Good Friday...and I am sitting here in our living room...thankful for a day off from work (one of the joys of working for a Christian organization) and watching one of the best shows ever "Mythbusters" 
anyway, back to what I was saying though...so its Good Friday...I cannot help but think what exactly was going through Christ's thoughts this day a couple thousand years ago as He spent his last day with His disciples and also knowing that He was about to take on the sin of the world so that His Father's will might be fulfilled. This truth overwhelms me, knowing that He did this so willingly because it was THE plan to save people from damnation. Christ took on MY sin! YOUR sin! Why? Because not only was it God's plan...but also because Christ's love for us was (and is) so VAST that He wanted to make a way for us to once again have fellowship with the Father.
I remember growing up...every year around Easter time, the church that I grew up in would have a special Sunday School class for the youth and adults...this class was lead by one of the Military doctors who attended the church and He would try to explain, as best as he could, in a visual way the pain that Christ experienced as He was tortured before he was crucified and also exactly how His body failed once He was nailed to the cross. I remember sitting there the first time that I sat in on that SS Class and I was overwhelmed and began to cry, thinking of how He did this for ME!? Why me? Because His love is so GREAT and VAST :) so much so that He endured all this pain, so that I would not have to and also so that I could one day spend eternity in heaven with the Lord or Lords and King of Kings. How amazing is that?!
Then to add to Christ giving Himself up for us by dying on the cross...a couple days later He arose from the dead, conquering death! Now He sits at the right hand of the Father!
Anyway a song comes to mind, and today as I sit here writing this it causes me to be so thankful for how GREAT my Father's love is for me and all His children!
"How deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure
That he should give his only son, to make a wretch his treasure
How great the pain of searing loss, the Father turned his face away
As wounds which mar the chosen one, bring many sons to glory
Behold the man upon a cross, my sin upon his shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held him there until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life; I know that it is finished
I will not boast in anything: no gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ; his death and resurrection
Why should I gain from his reward? I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart; his wounds have paid my ransom"
Anyway, I pray this Easter season...that if you do not know the Lord, that you find someone who does and have them explain to you how you too can come to know Him as your personal Savior! And for those of you who do have Christ in their heart...never forget what Christ has done so that we may have life and have it abundantly!
...so remember Christ paid the ulitmate penalty so that we, as humans, could experience God's amazing GRACE!
Well, I guess that is all for now...I have an appointment with a little three year old girl and her little brother who just turned one, while their parents go to a fun party...I think the plan is to play a little bit of house and dollies too...I assume it will be tons of fun :)
...until next time
~Kate
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