In times like these

We’re living in perilous times.  Few of us are immune to its poison.  People want to be assured that all will be well.  They want someone to “fix it!”  We turn to family, to friends, to the government.  But the world has no “magic bullet.” So, where do we go?

In times like these – we feel uncertainty.
Control was never in our grasp.
In times like these we find our way unclear,
and look for something that will last

What better time to look upon our Savior 
as anxiousness and fear would take its toll.
What better time to ponder  
what HE did
to end the curse of sin 
and break the chains of death 
and make His children whole?

He planned with love to pay the price for sin. 
He died that all who come to Him are welcomed in.

While on the cross with holy body broken.
He heard the guards laugh there in cold derision.  
Our Jesus heard the mocking crowd,
and died to free them from
their lost condition.

Still from that cross 
He LOVED the haughty and the vain, 
He loved the ones who caused His pain
 His words still echo 
“Father please
forgive” them too."
And child, He even died for you.

He planned with love to pay the price for sin. 
He died that all who come to Him are welcomed in.

So, in these times of peril
we look toward the One.
Look to Him, who can restrain 
the world He made,
and what we fear,
and death and pain.

So in this world of wild uncertainty.
God took our place
and gave eternity.

From Luke 23 
 
“When they came to the place called the Skull,
they crucified him there, along with the criminals
one on his right, the other on his left.”

“The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him.
They said, “He saved others;
let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah,
the Chosen One.”

“The soldiers also came up and mocked him.
They offered him wine vinegar and said, 
“If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.” . . .

But from the cross Jesus' words still echo, 
“Father, forgive them,
for they do not know what they are doing.” 

They saw Him suffer!  
They saw the blood, 
but they didn’t see the meaning. 
 They didn’t see His overwhelming love.
  

Dear friends, 

I pray today that in these times of trouble and uncertainty each one of us will be assured by this picture – the picture of the cross. The picture of God loving us so much that He gave His own life for ours.

Diane