1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. About a week ago we received a prayer request for a little boy who is in need of a heart transplant. As soon as I read it, I said God, "how do I pray for this". You see if it's my little boy that needs a heart, I really want the Lord to bring a heart to him. But what if my little boy is the one that has to give it up? What a heart wrenching thought...at least for me. I don't know much about donors, but that has to be a very difficult decision. It's one of those things in life that leave me still, quiet, just thinking and reflecting. Lord have mercy. An act to give freely with nothing in return except that someone else....lives.
It made me think about the price paid on a hill; a cross, where blood was voluntarily spilled.
We know it; we did not deserve it. A new life at the cost of someone else's? Why did he do it? The Bible says it was out of love; out of compassion for a people that was lost; literally dead. So, the begotten Son of the Father steps down into creation, confined by time and immersed in a world of hatred, anger, lust, betrayal, deception; a world that has a leader bent on destruction.....ours!
So as "heart wrenching" as it was for the Father to see his son give up his life for us, he did it because of the life that we desperately needed. We were dead Colossians 2:13. My mind is too small to understand the magnitude of what occurred on Calvary. This I do know, love was a factor; an agent that propelled this gift into action. There had to be such a singular focus of the end result, perhaps a glimpse of you and me without Christ. A sacrifice, not just for the Father to say to the Son go; but that the Son would also say yes. "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done." Matthew 26:42
In order for us to live, someone had to die. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.1 Peter 3:18
So look at the Cross, look at the blood of an innocent man; the Son of God clothed in flesh; willing to die so we would live. It's one of those things in life that leave me still, quiet, just thinking and reflecting.
I do pray for this little boy, that the Lord would give him life. My emotions take charge and I could find myself crying for the one that needs the heart and the one that could give it. I'm thankful that God is Sovereign and that he knows best. As I read the Bible is teaches me about a Miracle Worker, the Son of God that can indeed transform a situation that seems impossible to what we know as the "healing hand" of God. So, agree with me for supernatural healing for this little boy. Today he is someone else's little boy, but tomorrow it might be us who need the miracle.
I testify that the Lord has done incredible miracles in my life. It's been almost two months since I had to get off medication; wondering what would happen to my body. Fear tried to grip me; discouragement tried to place a hold in my life. But I called on the Name of the Lord! I can tell you I am incredibly well; actually better than before. I am no longer taking the medication prescribed to me; a prescription I had been on for years......
My God is able!
God bless you!~Liz
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