If there was ever a message communicated by God at the cross, it’s His willingness to embrace us and pull us again to Himself. Jesus spent His last moments of strength proving this great desire yet again…
“One of the criminals hanging alongside cursed him. But the other one made him shut up; ‘Have you no fear of God? We deserve this, but not him, he did nothing to deserve this’. Then he said, ‘Jesus remember me when you enter your kingdom.’ He said, ‘don’t worry, I will. Today you will join me in paradise.” ~Luke 23:39-43
I love this part of the cross story. The fact that Jesus spends his final moments reaching out for ‘whosoever will’ is a wonderful thing for us to behold. John later wrote that Jesus didn’t come to condemn us, but to save us. And did Jesus ever prove that in these final actions. Many people don’t let the Savior help them because they have done horrible things…but Jesus’ final act before He died was to ‘include’ a criminal. Others don’t let the Savior help them because they think their opportunity has run out…but Jesus was available to ‘include’ right up to His very last breath. Still others don’t let the Savior help them because they don’t know how to ask…but Jesus included the man who asked only to be remembered. Paul says that those who even call on the Lord will be saved. If Jesus’ final interaction on the cross proved anything, it’s that anyone who will reach toward the Savior in any way…will be INCLUDED! ~Verlon
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Really speaks of Jesus's heart..The Beat of God pounds Greatly there,In Life and Death..Reaching out to give comfort and of that Spirit to another deserving or not...even in his suffering.
ReplyDeleteEven in some of the things that have nailed me down, in a certen type of living death...His salvalion reaches for me, and but for the grace of God There now go I..Saving me still..Reaching and remembering me daily..With that neverending salvation....Praise God