Your Life Matters...

The darkest day in history....believe it or not was not right now.

Not with all the viruses, the media propaganda, the natural disasters, people's hearts turning more wicked, sin running rampant, the violence, the riots and the cry for peace.

It was a day more than 2,000 years ago. When the curtain was torn and the earth fell still.

Because the greatest man who ever walked this earth gave up His life for yours and mine.

Think about that for just a minute.Turn off the news. Get off the Social Media. Be still and just think.

That body hung cursed on a tree. The one who did no wrong. It was bruised and broken for a bruised and broken world. 

Can you hear the hammer? With each bang, the nails were driven further into His hands, His feet.

And I'm going to say what some people may not like to hear, but what God has revealed to me in the past. 

Jesus died for everyone. Will the cop who killed George Floyd be judged? Yes. And even if you think the judgment is not fair on earth, the judgement that really matters is to come. But would Jesus welcome him into His kingdom if this cop were to repent? Absolutely. 

And that may anger you. Gosh it used to make me upset that men and women who do horrible things could be forgiven so freely and accepted so lovingly by a Savior who is so much better than I am.

Yet we need to remember that God died for the very people who drove the nails through His hands. He died for the slave owners of the past who beat people senseless. He died for the people in the medical field that are corrupt. He died for the cops that are corrupt. He died for, dare I say it, the SS Guards and the Nazis who participated and aided in killing millions of people just for their race, their religion,their political view or more. 

These people will be judged by a just and loving God, just like you and me. He will look at their hearts and He will look for true repentance. No matter what they have done, He will welcome them freely if they truly repent. And only God knows this. 

So yes, injustice is happening right now. But, reader, it's been happening since the beginning of time. When sin crept in; and the black stain only grows bigger over time. This is a scary world and everyone cries out for peace, peace. But I'm sorry to break it to you, we aren't going to get that this side of heaven. 

What happens to the black community is awful. God hears their cries as He heard the cries of His people in Egypt. People, like Pharaoh, can have hardened hearts. And this world is only going to get darker and darker as the groans of sin echo throughout the earth. And all creation will moan for renewal and a new earth. That will come.

I really think it's going to happen in my lifetime, but only God knows the time. Our days shall become like the days of Noah and then He will come. He promised He would come back and He will. If you are a child of His, this should delight you. If you aren't, this should scare you. 

Because no matter what injustice takes place this side of heaven. No matter what pain or torment you are put through. Nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to an eternity separated from the One who gave up His life so you could truly find yours if you wanted to. 

So no matter who you are. No matter what race, religion, ethnicity, culture, upbringing, gender....God died for you. And on the cross His death shouted it out to a deaf world....that you.....are loved and that your life matters. No matter what you have done. He is still big enough to cleanse all unrighteousness.

I look to Him as the righteous and just Judge. And I also remind my racing heart over and over as tears pour down my face that He died for these people too. And I should be praying for them and gathering not in protest, but in prayer. And that.... my friends, can be a very hard thing to do.