The past few days have seemed a bit warmer than usual. We’ve seen bits and pieces of what we could call sunlight and have enjoyed them very much!
Saturday Bible study was wonderful. As we’ve been going through the book of John, we’ve finally come to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. When I was a child and we’d review this story each Easter, I often found myself bored and repeating the events in a play by play fashion as though I knew them so well I never needed to be reminded of the magnitude of the sacrifice. But we do need to be reminded. We need to remember and reflect often upon the great plan that God had in sending His Son to save us. Jesus died for me. Each nail that was driven into His body, each minute He hung on that cross was for my sake. When I see my life and the way the world has become, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the way He loves me so much. I don’t deserve His grace, none of us do, but I guess that’s why it’s called that—grace.
I truly hope and pray that each of you who are reading this would take some time today to reflect upon the gift that God gave each of us through His Son. He gave us the gift of eternal life, of freedom from our sin. All we have to do is accept it.
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.” John 3:16-18
Katrina
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