The Cost and More Than Enough

     It is Easter weekend. This is a special time for Christians. If it were not for the death of Christ on the cross where would we be today? Take time to think about what Christ means to you, what he has done for you in your life and what it cost Him, to die in your place. May those we love and care about find Christ and accept the debt he paid for them, that they may have eternal life. Let this be a time of remembrance for all that God has done in our own life.



                                                              The Cost

     Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? Could we not get to heaven another way? When mankind rebelled against God and entered into sin, God required a sacrifice of blood for the redemption of man. It was a debt that man could not pay. Through his love for us, God made a way, he provided the Holy sacrifice.
     Our Lord gave up being God for you and me. A humble man he became, setting aside his glory and power. He became the man that Adam failed to be. The shed blood of the son of God is what it cost to purchase freedom for you and me.
     He paid the debt that we could never pay. For all our affiliations, he bore the stripes at the whipping post of man. Beaten and abused he accepted our shame and disgrace. Nailed to the cross he was covered with the sins of mankind. Broken and grieving but the worst was yet to come. MY GOD, MY GOD, why hast thou forsaken me. The horrors of sin, God would not look upon.Total separation from God, as he turned away from his only begotten son. Our Savior understood what man never can, the cost of total separation of God from man. In that moment of time we faintly can see the devastation that sin has brought to you and me. Our relationship with God broken by the sins in our lives. It was the blood, the life of the only begotten son of God that was required for the redemption of you and me.

     John 10:17-18
     Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.



                                                            More Than Enough

    Is there any way to have to much of God? Never! He is all we need. He is the calm in the storms of life that we all go through and he is our guard in the daily wars we fight. When we are the weakest, he is our strength.Only God can bring peace in times of sorrow. When we can no longer walk, he carries us. He is reason in times of confusion. He is more than enough for all our needs.
         He is our healer in times of sickness.
         He wipes away the tears of the broken and heavy heart.
         He is our courage and strength to face each day.
         He loves us, though hated by many.
         He is our encourage'r when we are down.
         He knows our every sin, yet forgives, when we ask.
         He gently corrects us when we do wrong.
         He gives us peace and joy for our sorrow and pain.
     On the day he died, on the cross, he thought of you and me, and freely gave his life, that we might be free. He took our sins and made them his own, so that he could pay the debt, that we could never pay. Can we have to much of God, NO! When we allow him to have all of us, we will become a reflection of Him.




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