chosen to be loyal to. We follow and trust and obey.
You can see the sordid squalor of our world, with its hunger, flies, guns, bombs, wreckage, mutilation, syringes, gutters, empty fields, deserts, gravestones, hearses, rubble, and litter. Then look around you at faces when off guard, and what do you see? Faces of sighs, emptiness, hopelessness, anger, tension, hatred, frustration, stoical resignation, eyes filling with heartbreak and grief, pain and hurt. Eyes that say WHY? WHY? WHY?
Then look beyond all that to Calvary, and see Jesus on the cross, bearing that same suffering for us, in utter loneliness and rejection. But He said, ‘And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.’ He was lifted up on the cross. He came to take our death, to give us hope and bring an end to the hurts of the world. As He died He proclaimed - ‘It is finished!’ Satan is conquered. More than that He says ‘Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’
Still He waits, for each of us to take our burden to Him, to trust His promises, and to choose to be fully obedient to Him. He is not willing that any should perish. 2 Peter 3:9 |
