Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Incomprensible love

John 3:16 says, "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
I've watched The Passion of the Christ several times and my limited cerebral capacity doesn't get it, I just don't understand why. Why would He do it? Love of that magnitude escapes me.
I love my wife, I love my kids and I would like to think that I'd be willing to die for them but would I undergo the type of pain suffering and torture that Jesus did, on their behalf? Man, I don't know. Seriously, I doubt it. and I REALLY love them. It just doesn't compare. Compare, that's funny that I would even try to compare my love to the love of the Creator of the universe. 
That kind of love brings another passage in the Gospel of John into focus where Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." (John14:6) He bought and paid for us on Good Friday.
Good Friday, what a crazy name for the day that Jesus showed His love for us. 
The bottom line is: It was Good alright, good for me and you.

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