All For Love the Heavens Cried, for Love was Crucified

I see, here comes the blogging season again! It's funny how the urge to blog is seasonal in me. These fingers will cease from tapping on this keyboard for months before it floods this blog with thoughts all at once!

So we're entering the want-to-blog mood again. But no one can tell how long will this last before we put this blog back to sleep; so much for neverleftbehind - this blog is definitely lagging behind. But while it lasts, let's try to make this good!

The best weekend had just passed. To most, this long weekend was probably but a good break. But for those of us who understands and celebrates the reason behind Good Friday, let our hearts be full of gratitude, and our mouths be filled with praise once again.

Because of Good Friday and the love that was crucified this day, I am now able to stand freely in the presence of God knowing that His death has brought me life. For something that took place some two thousand years ago, it's often easy to forget the work on that cross that gives us the priviledge of standing upon this salvation.

"When I consider your Heaven, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? - Psalm 8:3-4

It always amazes me to know that the God who spoke the entire universe into being, who measures the universe by the span of His hands, could love us enough to forsake the comfort of His majesty in Heaven. He took the humble place of a man and died the death that only the worst criminal deserved; though He was blameless and spotless as a lamb. He paid the price for your sins and my sins with His precious blood.

My limited mind can never come to comprehend the measure of His love. How such a BIG God who counts the billions of stars and who calls them by name could look upon someone as insignificant as me. More than that, His thoughts toward you and me are precious and they are as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Because of love so magnificient, He gave His life that we may live.

"Jesus said 'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me'" - John 14:6

God's love so great, He does not want to be eternally seperated from us and sends Jesus to bring us back to Himself. Jesus came as the ultimate sacrifice upon the cross that enabled us, a sinful man, to come back to a Holy God as His blood covers us and washes our sins away.

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." - Hebrews 12:2

Jesus was humiliated and beaten beyond recognition. He was tired. He was hurting. If He could, He wouldn't want to walk the path of the cross. But He knew His death would bring us life, and that became His joy and source of strength as He endured the cross; a cross that was rightfully ours.

Each time I remember the cross I would be overwhelmed by the love of God and this heart of mine would begin to sing a heartfelt song of thanksgiving for all He has done for me.

My friend, Jesus came to die for you because He loves you.