Before Jesus!

In Isaiah 59:12 it says:  “For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them”.  There was no “bridge” to forgiveness and no “bridge” to Heaven until Jesus! Thanks to Jesus, there is now 🙂

And although Jesus sacrificed the most, it is not just Jesus who sacrificed, it’s our Father, Mary, the Holy Spirit, the Apostles, His Friends.  It’s all those who loved Jesus!  Can we imagine our sons suffering and dying on that Cross while we stood at their feet to offer what comfort we could?  Can you imagine how our Father felt as He watched Jesus on the Cross? Or Joseph? 

Or how about being Jesus?  I could not imagine holding my hand still while they nailed it to a cross.  The pain alone!  Jesus had the power to take Himself away from the pain at any time, but He didn’t.  He stayed, and He suffered, because He loves us so much!  And all of those who loved Jesus, suffered to.

In 1890, there was an Evangelical Missionary (Oswald Smith who said, “O. to realize that souls, precious never perishing souls, are perishing all around us…”  How often do we really think about and have compassion for those lost souls?  How often does our own soul prompt us to share the Good News that because Jesus came, a bridge has been built to Heaven. but that we need to accepts Jesus’ Great Gift and Follow Him home ?. 

Our world has become so anti-Christian that many are afraid of “offending” someone, and do not share the Gospel, but sometimes we have to do something even when we are afraid!

God commands it: “When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” – Ezekiel 3:18

“Courage comes from walking with our Lord”, is a phrase in a popular Christian song.  In this day and age, we need it.  The world tries to convince us to be silent.  But God commands us to speak.  It’s up to us who we obey!

Jesus did not let fear stop Him from suffering on the Cross and Rising to Save us.  We can’t let fear stop us from bringing as many people as we can with us ?