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It's Personal, by Bill Brant
Maybe it's a symptom of age. Maybe the experiences of accumulated
years have magnified sensitivity. Maybe as the forces of nature rub and
buffet, erosion of will and determination has taken its toll.
Regardless of how or why, I find myself much more aware of what it
means. I understand the incredible super-human effort it must have
taken to stay there. I contemplate the morbidity of enduring until
death for the cause. What I cannot understand is why was it done for
me? Why, before the world was created, did God Almighty formulate a
plan where His Son would die and by doing so, make me worthy to live
with the Father forever?
I don't comprehend, but I thankfully accept and it's personal:
For God so loved Bill Brant that He gave His only begotten Son,
so that Bill would believe on Him and have everlasting life (John
3:16 personalized).
With that too, comes realization. It ambushes me at unsuspected moments
like when at my fellowship the lyrics from a song float through the
auditorium:
Behold the man upon the cross
My guilt upon His shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held Him there
It was my sin that held Him there
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I can't explain the tears. I'm old school and old schoolers don't cry.
But it's personal now.
People talk theology. Jesus lived His life and then gave it up to each
of us. He didn't talk. He did. He died so you could be with Him and God
forever. It's personal for Him and for you.
It's personal now; let's talk. Email me at bbrant@heraldoftruth.org or
visit HopeforLife.org and hear the stories of others for whom it's
personal.
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* I Have Seen The Price of Freedom
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* The Story of Jesus
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* Jesus and His Church
http://hopeforlife.org/resources/jesuschurch.asp
* Hope For Life
http://www.hopeforlife.org
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