FROM THE TREE TO THE CROSS

What’s the point in all of this misery called life? I just don’t undestand.

Its hard I know and even harder when it all makes no sense.  I am sorry that this life is so hard but it is hard so that you can learn about love first hand.
The hard way, the real way, with all of its vulnerability and mistakes and heartbreak but ultimately joy when you realize that the one who made you is in fact love itself, and he loves you and desires you to find him and love him back which completes the cycle of love that he started in you when he first created you.

He loved you so much that He became a man, a human just like you so that he could show you his love by experiencing the same hardships and misery that we all experience, so that you would know that he is not some unknown being or unrelatable spirit that couldn’t understand you and what you are going through.

He loves you so much that He proved his love for all of us by allowing his own creation to kill and destroy him with the most humiliating form of death possible, being crucified on a cross, naked and in shame, nailed to a tree for all to see and mock their own creator.

Even though you were not there and did not participate in his execution, we all are guilty of his death because we all have sinned and it was the sin that we created and perpetuate that caused his life and example of love to be reduced to a body on that cross.

But he loves you so much that He refused to let yours and my mistakes become your sealed fate for eternity because an eternal death is the inevitable end and price that must be paid for sin, so he paid it for us.

He transformed that cross of sin and shame into the cross of Glory and Grace, an everlasting symbol of the unfathomable love of God

All we have to do is recognize his sacrifice for us and turn from our sin that caused his death, and in return we will get to experience his love for an eternity, this is an experience that can not be described or explained but I promise you it will be worth it. 

So please don’t give up, and don’t give in, as hard as it is now it is nothing compared to how amazing it will be when sin and death is finally conquered because we put his cross and the debt he paid for us in our minds and In our hearts forever.

All of my love to all of you.

J