Monday, April 1, 2019

Can you see Him

Can you see Him hanging on the cross?  Bleeding while people mock and scorn Him.  Their hate and lies flying past their lips to strike Him.  Hanging there, dying and doing nothing worldly to deserve it.   Can you see the compassion and love in His eyes as He says, "It is finished."? John 19:30

But what is "finished"?  Death is finished.  Jesus knew that he would rise from the tomb after 3 days.  Hell is finished.  For those who have accepted Jesus into their hearts and have a relationship with Him, will not see hell.  The veil is finished.  The veil that separated us from God was torn.  

Can you see Him buried in the tomb?  Wrapped in burial cloth, they placed His body in a borrowed tomb.  Lying there for three days as the people who killed Him or had Him killed celebrated His death.  The ones who loved and followed Him weeping at the loss of Him.  The anger and frustration felt by them that Jesus did not rise up and stop the crucifixion.

Can you see Him?  As Jesus talks with Mary at the side of the tomb where the stone was rolled away, the look of shock, amazement and joy on her face.  As He walked beside two of his disciples who had no idea of who He was on the road to Emmaus.

Can you see Him?  As He sits on the throne at the right hand of our Father.  Can you see the look of love and compassion in His eyes as He looks at you?  The look that says, "This, all of this was for you."  

Can you see Him?  In your everyday life He is at the grocery store, in the parking lot with you.  He is in the car beside you an watching over you as you sleep.  "All of this was for you".  

Can you see Him?    


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