More than the sun...

I was looking at the pictures you see there of my children and i began to hum a Matthew West Christian song about how God loves us more than the sun and the stars, etc that He placed in the sky. Then i thought... Would i give up my child, even one of my children, so that others may live. What about giving one of them over to the terrorists who do some of the most unspeakable items on earth - NO. I think of my very best friends and would i give one of my children up so that he could live. The result... ABSOLUTELY NO WAY! You see, with Casey i have six children and i wouldn't give up a bloody nose or even a scratch so that someone else could go free. I've held Gracie or Sissy, etc when one of them had a cold and it tears me up. I remember being told about my daughter Sissy having a small hole in her heart and they were going to do some tests to see how bad. I remember sitting there waiting for the phone to ring (deployed, of course) and praying that God would take me to heaven in stead so that she wouldn't be in any pain or suffer. SHE WAS FINE. My heart is broken just to see my daughter get a shot.

God did this and more. He knew that sending Jesus, His only Son, to earth would result in horrible attrocities placed upon Him. He didn't just sit and watch what was going on, he sent him to suffer. He sent him to die upon that cross. We think about the love we have for our wife and children and imagine that it hurts so much to see them in pain. Think of the greatest LOVE of all giving everything so that you, a pretty miserable wretch, can spend eternity in heaven. God loves you so much that he purposely allowed the graphic mutilation of His Son just to one day sit around and listen to us pray... to one day sit around and listen to me worship at his feet. Then, take the physical pain of what was being placed upon Jesus and multiply it times an infinite number to see the amount Jesus suffered when God turned away. I believe that when Jesus spoke from the cross "why has thou foresaken me", i believe that is when Jesus BECAME OUR SIN, allowed the creepy little thoughts that enter into my head, the anger, the lust, and the etc etc etc that goes on every day to be placed into His heart. God can have no sin in His presence so Jesus took it for us. He bacame sin and God turned away! WOW!!!!

If there are questions in your heart....

accept that you're a sinner - accept that Jesus can forgive you of those sins and ask Him to - turn away from those sins and begin anew - washed by the blood of Christ!

How much does God love you - FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST!