~ ~ ~ The Door of the Cross ~ ~ ~
Then said JESUS
unto the twelve,
"Will you,
you also
go away?"
John 6:67 Green's Greek Interlinear
The LORD'S sorrow was real. HE+ knew the hearts of men. HE+ knew their frame, their weaknesses. HE+ knew their vacillating wills...
HE+ still knows.
HE+ knew how easily they were swayed by their own thoughts and feelings, easily influenced by those around them.
HE+ still knows.
HE+ also knew exactly how abhorrent it would seem to the Jews to think of eating human flesh and drinking human blood.
HE+ still knows how abhorrent dying to our Self is, how we don't want to join HIM+ in picking up our cross, how we want HIM+ to do His+ part... and our part too!
Yet, Our LORD persisted in making the path harder, the door higher, the way more narrow for those coming to HIM+ for Eternal Life.
Will you also go away?
Countless others have.
Countless others have, from those who walked with HIM+ in person along with the twelve 2,000 years ago... much to their un-ending sorrow and constant bitterness now... to those who are playing fast and loose with HIM+ today, thinking they can repent fast on their death bed... if they have a death bed, that is.
Will
you also
go
AWAY
?
Away... to count JESUS a stranger rather than friend... to count JESUS as someone to ignore, to take or leave until a more convenient time.
NOW is the day of Salvation,
while it is called TODAY.
Tomorrow is not promised
for anyone...
neither is a tidy,
orderly death bed.
( Sudden accidents happen daily.)
for anyone...
neither is a tidy,
orderly death bed.
( Sudden accidents happen daily.)
Harden not your hearts
as in the day of provocation.
.
O LORD GOD, Who+ knows our weaknesses and our frame, look upon this Thy+ servant. I bring my Self, kicking and screaming, unto THEE+.
Dear JESUS, I don't want to be a stranger to you anymore. Help THOU+ my unbelief and rebuke the hindering spirit keeping me from THEE+.
I will to close the gap , O Great REDEEMER+, because THOU+ hast promised to receive sinners and backsliders ... if they repent. I'm sorry I've hurt THEE+, dear JESUS.
O LAMB+ of GOD I come... I come.
