Today is Friday, March 21st, 2008; Karen's Korner #1275

Yesterday at our church's Ladies Aid, Jane Clemsen read a couple of short thoughts from a several books by Max Lucado.
 
This is one of her readings, taken from "The Gift for All People"; the chapter is titled, "At Any Cost":
 
"God on a cross. The ultimate act of creative compassion.
 
"The Creator being sacrificed for the creation. God convincing man once and for all that he would give anything, pay any price to save his children. He could have given up. He could have turned his back. He could have walked away from the wretched mess the world became, but he didn't.
 
"God didn't give up.
 
"When people from his own hometown tried to push him over a cliff, he didn't give up.
 
"When his brothers ridiculed him, he didn't give up.
 
"When he was accused of blaspheming God by people who didn't fear God, he didn't give up.
 
"When Peter worshiped him at the supper and cursed him at the fire, he didn't give up.
 
"When people spat in his face, he didn't spit back. When the bystanders slapped him, he didn't slap them. When a whip ripped his sides, he didn't slap them. When a whip ripped his sides, he didn't turn and command the awaiting angels to stuff that whip down that soldier's throat.

"And when human hands fastened the divine hands to a cross with spikes, it wasn't the soldiers who held the hands of Jesus steady. It was God who held them steady. Those same hands that formed the oceans and built the mountains. Those same hands that designed the dawn and crafted each cloud. Those same hands that blueprinted one incrdible plan for you and me.
 
"Take a stroll out to the hill. Out to Calvary. Out to the cross where, with holy blood, the hand that placed you on the planet wrote the promise, 'God would give up his only Son before he'd give up on you.'"

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