Today, our world seems darker.
Today, my heart is heavy and grieving.
Today, I acknowledge my guilt and wrap myself around my shame.
Today, I try to fully take in the magnitude of this beautiful, amazing Love.
On this day, creation mourned and the sun hid itself in grief.
On this day, Jesus chose to stay nailed down, for His heart was full of love.
On this day, Jesus took my guilt into His own body and gave up, for a time, His perfect closeness with God the Father.
On this day, God once for all proved His love for us.
On this day, He proved His Word, that He truly meant it when He said
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
He loves me. He came to rescue me and to make me perfect and holy. He came to conquer death and to make me alive.
On this day, God proved through Jesus that He means to accomplish all of these things.
And yet.
Is He able?
Today, I do not yet know.
I suppose I’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out.
art credit: Sketch by Rembrandt, The Three Crosses