- Sep 26, 2018
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You know I was reading a book the other day and the author wrote that G_d in the flesh died on the cross in actual fact. For the first time that really hit me harder than it ever had before! I'm turning 69 in December and I have experienced a near death event about five years ago so perhaps that made it more real to me but for the first time I really felt it in my heart of hearts down to my very soul. G_d died, actually tasted what all humans go through when they die on that cross for us, for me. Now I knew that, I had accepted it, professed it, but that instant I actually felt it as I had never before and it HURT! It hurt that G_d should have to go through that for me! I felt such pain, anguish, sorrow, and gratitude as I had never felt before. Oh, and I have felt pain before believe me but never like that. I broke down in tears such I could not speak and my wife came in wondering what was wrong but I could not speak. I waved her off when she asked if I was ok by shaking my head yes. Jesus was G_d in the flesh on earth and he died on that cross for us and how many times do we fail to stand up for Him? We Christians in America have high opinions of ourselves. Look at the Christians in the Middle East that refuse to deny their faith and are tortured to death, burned alive, drowned in cages, or beheaded and the women as well as the girls raped while some who call themselves Christians in America refuse to stand up for Jesus Christ against almost anything because they might be laughed at, scorned, or looked down on. How we must grieve G_d! We have so much yet do so little for what we have.