It’s
Friday!
Jesus hangs on the cross. His life appears to be ebbing away. He has
been verbally abused, taunted, challenged, tantalized with the possibility of
greatness, mocked, spat upon, and beat. It is now His time. With a legion of
angels at his beck and call, Jesus turned His back on the world’s way and chose
His Father’s will. Hanging there He cries out, “Into
Thy hands I commit My Spirit.” He gave up His life. They didn’t take it
away. Willingly Jesus jumped into the arms of His Father. Jesus put his postmortem future in the hands of His Heavenly Father.
Where is your
trust?
Throughout our
lives we rely on all sorts of things. We begin life fully dependent on our
parents. Along the way we trust teachers, doctors, lawyers, pilots, spouses,
presidents, police officers, friends, pastors, and, of course, our selves. But
in the end there is only one place for ultimate trust.
In God, and God alone, through His crucified and resurrected Son, Jesus Christ.
Manley Beasley, a
Texas evangelist who for years suffered from three
terminal illnesses while experiencing great pain, declared, “Sink, or swim, live or die, I commit myself to Jesus.”
The prophet
Habakkuk declared, “Though the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no
fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail, and the fields
produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold, and there be
no cattle in the stalls. Yet, I will exult in the Lord,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like
hinds’ feet, and makes me walk on my high places. (Habakkuk 3:17-19)
And Job declared, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” (Job 13:15)
Sunday's coming! What’s your declaration?
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