There is something about moments that I'm sure we're meant to wonder over. Not wonder as in, "what's going on" so much as wonder as in, "WOW!" Today, I dropped my son off for his first day of High School. To fully appreciate this fact, you need to know that he has been home-schooled since the second grade.
I am not quite sure what I'm feeling right now.
But, one thing I keep coming back to is the gospel. In my concern, Jesus loves me...wow! That fact, is enough to bring me to worship - to simply allow worry to fade and to trust the Saviour.
What do you do in the moments? Where do you turn? Whom do you trust? Take the time to slow down, to stop and think, to "behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the children of God." How often we hear these words of Scripture and simply just fly over them...
“In order for Jesus to suffer and die,
He had to plan way ahead of time
because he couldn’t die.
Immortal, He didn’t have a body
And yet he wanted to die.
For you.
So, He planned the whole thing
by clothing himself with a body,
so that He could get hungry
and get weary
and have sore feet.
The incarnation of Jesus is the preparation
of nerve endings
for the nails,
the preparation of a brow
or thorns pressed through.
He needed to have a broad back
so that there was a place
for the whips.
He needed to have feet
so that there was a place
for spikes.
He needed to have a side
so that there was a place
for the sword to go in.
He needed to have fleshy cheeks
so that Judas would have a place to kiss
and there would be a place for the spit
to run down that the soldiers put on him.
He needed a brain and a spinal column
with no vinegar and no gall,
so that the exquisiteness of the pain
could be fully felt."
"So I plead with you, when you’re reading the Bible and you read texts like: “He loved you and gave himself for you,” you wouldn’t go too fast over it. Linger, linger, linger, and plead with Jesus that your eyes would be opened."
(from the end of song by Json based on a sermon by John Piper)
