Today is Thursday, March 20th, 2008; Karen's Korner #1274
It is Easter week and the operation nears completion.
The patients need new organs. An organ donor has been found!
I am an organ donor. Should something happen to me, between family members and the doctors, they will decide if I have any salvageable organs which could be harvested and given to another person.
Jesus chose to be an organ donor for all of humankind! Unlike me, He even had the choice of continuing the dying process. He could have chosen otherwise. He could have gotten out of it! Heaven and all its resources could have rescued Him. But everyone chose otherwise! They knew the state of those needing to be rescued!
Imagine the joy of families and individuals when they learn that a heart, lung, kidney, or eyes have been found? Would any of them say, "No, thanks! I don't want it!" Every friend and family member, not to mention the person receiving the new life-saving organ, would be thrilled with the good news!
Spiriually speaking, we, like others needing physical organs, are in need of new hearts. Jesus said, "You can have mine!" Organ donation nearly always involves death. So that was what was set. He died so that we might live!
Today is Maunday Thursday; tomorrow is Good Friday; and then comes Easter! Are we ready for it? Are we ready to receive the heart transplant? Are we ready to be more than just revived? But restored to even greater things with "Hearts by Jesus"?
Jesus told us, "I am leaving you with a gift...peace of mind and heart! And the peace (new heart!) I give you isn't fragile like the world gives (your old heart!), so don't be troubled or afraid." (John 14:27)
Romans 4:16 says, "So God's blessings are given to us by faith, as a free gift......"
Romans 6:23: "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
I used to be on life supporters, waiting for a heart transplant. When I received Jesus into my life, I was given His heart. One that doesn't stop beating. One that will carry me through into eternity! One that is better than the old one I used to have.
Free gift for me.
Expensive from the Gift Giver!
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