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They call it “Good Friday”, but it was the worst day that ever was. It was the ultimate treason against heaven, the ultimate insult. God would’ve been just two lifeless planet off the face of the universe, maybe even to wipe the universe off the face of the universe.
They murdered his only son. He sent the son to build a bridge of peace and to be a gift of good to our broken and a desecrated race. It was the ultimate insult.
And God knew they would do it that way, and he sent his son anyway, and personally asked him to go, for love’s sake.
And Jesus, wonderful Jesus, the wildly and horrifically brutalized, beaten, and executed. He understood what he was getting into when he did it and he still did it. That is infinite kindness mixed well with infinite grit.
The God of the living, crucified and dead, in the grave, waging war against hell, he brought with him when he rose a host of rescued captives.
And on the third day, the most beautiful day that ever existed, the day for which every Christmas was born and bowed, on Easter he rose from death to life.
And I was his enemy. Truly, and literally I was. I knowingly spoke to heaven as a 16-year-old and said that I would put God in his place. What profound hubris.
And what a God! He would have been just so very just to punch me in the head. And yet he loves and he is so filled with grace.
He turned his face in kindness to me.
I was literally his enemy, and he literally died to save me.
And he didn’t just save me, he literally saved my sister from death, my brother from death. He saved my family from death, literally.
Jesus is more beautiful than words.
I do owe him my life.
And this is the day he did it. This is the day he raised from the dead for me.
And so his name is the highest blessing.
It is the sweetest song.
I love him for it.
I truly did not deserve it and he was so good. If that was all he ever did for me, it would be infinitely more than I ever deserved. How could he do it?
And he has walked with me and has done good by me the last 28 years. Not just throwing pennies, he gave me my wife Wife, and she is heaven‘s idea of a treasure of a woman. He brought my daughters to life. We couldn’t have kids, I have five children in heaven. I was as poor as you could get, as worthless as you could get in a professional sense, and he put me in college, and he gave me my career. From undergraduate through grad school, he not only walked with me, but he pointed me where to go and he opened doors. And every one of those was a good gift. And he has put me through my jobs and walked me through them too, and every one of those is a good gift.
He is so good.
He is so kind.
And if you look for it, you have to be looking for it, when you read the Bible, he is a brilliant light, carved out of solid lightning, leaking through into this broken, terrible world.
And if you are at the bottom and you have no hope, you can cry out to him. If he would save the miserable creature that I was, you are less far from him than I was, cry out to him.
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