Dear Lord,
I kneel in a moment of reverent silence seeking words, finding none to express the wonderment my soul experiences in the face of such unfathomable love.
How does one approach you in this season when we commemorate your suffering service to a lost and dying world?
No matter how opulent my expression of praise may be, it cannot convey the enormity of my appreciation.
It is with great introspection that I recognize my wretchedness was the catalyst through which your righteousness was offered up - my sacrificial lamb in bloody recompense for justice sentence on my soul.
How could you forsake the sanctity of the celestial, the trajectory of the triumphant, and the magnificence of heavenly mansions only to immerse yourself into our injurious sinful and chaotic world?
Your all-encompassing love enabled you to give the ultimate sacrifice for we who are the consummate failures. Not one continent escaped sin, a fallen and depraved humanity lost and without hope in this present world and yet you redeemed the rejected, restored the wayward, procured the pathetic and empowered the incompetent.
Yes, with every pulsating laceration cutting deeper into your spotless flesh, your precious blood made streams in my desert places, pouring from your body washing down into my sins like mudslides into the ocean of your grace. It was you that submerged me into the sea of your love.
My praise goes ever upward like bubbles dancing in the air.
Your timing was so impeccable that before hell could announce its victory, you arose with the stealth of a lion, snatching the sting from death and yanking the victory from the grave.
Early before daybreak you arose, folding your grave clothes, rolling back stones and with the gallantry of the prince you are; you were seen strolling through the garden in time for a Sunday morning stroll.
That is why this day and every day we cast our crowns before you and give all glory to you. You are the Christ, the hero of all who have ever fallen in the battle to sin.
You are the CEO of Heaven, the Master of the Universe and the Redeemer of the Soul. Receive this humble praise as a deposit on a debt I could never repay.
Your Majesty the Great, my King the Chief Potentate of Heaven, Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen.
Bishop T.D. Jakes, author of "Let it Go" a best selling book on forgiveness.
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According to your faith, be it unto you.
According to your faith, be it unto you.
Wake up ! View this for a start http://youtu.be/x2PoAni5CoA
Jesus will not sit with you and eat a bowl of Shitterlings, sorry it is just not going to happen. Eating pig came from pagen Europeans.
Go back and read the book, "Roots" Kunta Kinta would not eat the pig. Pig was survivial food for my ancestors. It became "Soul Food", which needs to be understood from a historical and from the Bible.
No hog eater will see heaven!
Leviticus is not true? Please do not interpet God's word to fit America's culture and lifestyle. O.T. and N.T. go hand in hand. God said that his word never changes and the Hebrew Bible is even clearer on this point.
Easter is a greek goddess (Astre). She was a sex (fertility) goddess. So Black people are running around and saying Happy Sex! (LOL). Now who needs to study?
Once again, how do you get 3 days from Friday evening to Sunday morning? Now who needs to study? If Jesus of 2,000 years ago died for our sins, why is sin still in the world?
Peace Be Unto You ! (John 20:19,21,26)
Thank you for your time as well. Just to add a few more points. The disciples were given the name ' The Way" by men as shown in Acts 9;1,2 ; Acts 22:24 but if you examine Acts 11:26 carefully it shows the difference is that they were called Christians by divine providence. You can conclude what that means for yourself but it points to direction by God's holy spirit. That religion is important to God is shown clearly in 2 Kings 17;26 which shows that the Samaritans were condemned because they did not know the religion of the God of the land. The entire chapter is very insightful about true and false religion. It is noteworthy that back then in the days of the prophet Isaiah ( Isaiah 43:10-12) God said he will call people his witnesses. Acts 15:14 shows God will take out a people for his name. Ponder on these things, you seem to have an ear for the ring of truth.
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To everyone else, have a wonderful remaining Easter Sunday and rejoice because HE HAS RISEN!!!!!
As it CLEARLY states that there should be NO graven images of God??
This is what is WRONG with religion!