the MAN

Let me tell you about the Man who flipped my life upside down. 

I met Him when I was 6 years old.  Our relationship over the years has been one of constraint change and growth.  There have been times when I walked away from Him not wanting anything to do with it, and there have been times I have done everything in my power to bring Him down and destroy Him.  But He is the never changing constant in the midst of the crazy.  He has never stopped loving me.  When I walk away from Him, He just comes after me and loves me anyway.  He has loved me through the worst and the best.  He knows it all and doesn’t care. He just loves. 

One day some men came and pulled out a list of my crimes and the laws I had broken.  The punishment for my crimes was death row.  I cried when I saw it, but I knew it was too late. I also knew that I deserved it.

As the men where about to take me away, He stepped in and told them to take Him instead.  He said that He wanted to take the penalty for my brokenness and that He would die for me.  The men agreed.  They took Him and as I watched, they beat Him and they abused Him.  When He was almost dead, He looked up and said, FATHER, Forgive them.  They don’t even have a clue what they are doing.

I cried.  I fell on my face and I bawled. 

A hand was laid on my shoulder. That voice spoke softly with words of love.

It couldn’t be Him.  I had watched them kill him. I had watched them bury him in the ground.  I had seen it all. It couldn’t be. 

But it was.  Death couldn’t keep perfection in the ground.  Death couldn’t take the love of that man and destroy it.