Continuing with our preparation for Holy Week, for those who know Christ and Him Crucified for us, what a blessing. Although we daily struggle with events of this life, the uncertainties, the challenges, the concerns about our nation’s direction, finances, health, etc., God knows we are mere mortals and will struggle in this life. However, Easter is about the end result.
This hymn expresses it so well: “Art thou weary, art thou languid, art thou sore distressed? ‘Come to Me,’ saith One, ‘and coming, be at rest.’ Hath He marks to led me to Him, If He be my Guide? In His feet and hands are wound prints, and His side. Is there diadem as Monarch, that His brow adorns? Yea, a crown, in very surety, but of thorns. If I find Him, if I follow, what His guerdon here? Many a sorrow, many a labor, many a tear. If I still hold closely to Him, what hath He at last? Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, Jordan passed. Finding, following, keeping, struggling, is He sure to bless? Saints, apostles, prophets, ms martyrs, answer, ‘Yes.'”
Romans 5 is our comfort, as Satan attacks the church, our faith, our values, church leaders, worship styles, and rewriting history. Here’s what the Bible says, and what I truly believe:
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disppoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, thou for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
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