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I’m almost 60 and never had I seen this side of the Gospel
I had an epiphany a couple of nights ago and thought I’d share.
We have a 10 year old Pomeranian dog. For 10 years he has slept on our pillows. Sometime mine, sometimes my wife’s. We adore the dog (Furbee) and he has been nothing but uncompromising love for 10 years.
Pomeranians often have breathing problems and lately Furbee has been having them. My wife, a nurse, hoped that it was a sinus infection, cold, or allergy but she noted that this may be the end of his time with us.
A few nights ago she was stroking him as he struggled to breathe and she said.
“We’ve had him a long time and he’s given so much love and we’ve given him the best life a dog could want. If he leaves well, I’m ready for that. I just don’t want him to go alone and scared. I don’t want him to think, WHERE’S MY MOMMY?”
The thought sent a shiver of pain in my heart. “If he has to go, let in be in our arms, oh Lord” I prayed. The thought that I couldn’t comfort my dear Furbee in his last moments brought me to tears.
The next day I was doing my devotional and ran across the verses Matthew 27:45-46
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
That slammed into me like a brick. I’ve considered the sacrifice of Christ many times, the blood, the beatings, the nails, the crucifixion, even the isolation as God turned away at the end.
But I had not thought of the sacrifice that God made. You know, the Father. He had to turn His back on His only son when His son was hurting and crying out for him. He had to hear His son plead for Him and deny His son that relief.
Oh, I can’t think of a worse pain. Imagine hearing your child call for you and not being able to respond. God could have split the earth like a grape but He withstood the sacrifice and the pain.
That might be the greatest sacrifice in the Bible.
I had an epiphany a couple of nights ago and thought I’d share.
We have a 10 year old Pomeranian dog. For 10 years he has slept on our pillows. Sometime mine, sometimes my wife’s. We adore the dog (Furbee) and he has been nothing but uncompromising love for 10 years.
Pomeranians often have breathing problems and lately Furbee has been having them. My wife, a nurse, hoped that it was a sinus infection, cold, or allergy but she noted that this may be the end of his time with us.
A few nights ago she was stroking him as he struggled to breathe and she said.
“We’ve had him a long time and he’s given so much love and we’ve given him the best life a dog could want. If he leaves well, I’m ready for that. I just don’t want him to go alone and scared. I don’t want him to think, WHERE’S MY MOMMY?”
The thought sent a shiver of pain in my heart. “If he has to go, let in be in our arms, oh Lord” I prayed. The thought that I couldn’t comfort my dear Furbee in his last moments brought me to tears.
The next day I was doing my devotional and ran across the verses Matthew 27:45-46
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
That slammed into me like a brick. I’ve considered the sacrifice of Christ many times, the blood, the beatings, the nails, the crucifixion, even the isolation as God turned away at the end.
But I had not thought of the sacrifice that God made. You know, the Father. He had to turn His back on His only son when His son was hurting and crying out for him. He had to hear His son plead for Him and deny His son that relief.
Oh, I can’t think of a worse pain. Imagine hearing your child call for you and not being able to respond. God could have split the earth like a grape but He withstood the sacrifice and the pain.
That might be the greatest sacrifice in the Bible.
