Mondays with Jesus

 I mentioned Saturday that I spent time at my Church’s ‘Wailing Wall,’ a prayer opportunity to plead for our very broken world. It was sobering as we interceded for those forced into hotel rooms, dark tunnels, war torn cities and other  dens of trauma and torture.

Today,I sat at length with the Father, asking how long, oh Lord?  Please relieve this suffering!  Dr. Denison wrote from a different perspective: “Feel the agony of the Father as he allows his precious Son to die so we can be forgiven and live eternally.”  I ask why; Jim exposes the Father’s heart. Sin and evil must crush Abba’s heart. And should it not ours?

And then this:

ROMANS 5:8

"Do you see how deeply I love you: even when you turned away, even when your heart was far from me, I didn’t wait for you to get it right. I didn’t wait for you to fix yourself or prove your worth. My love is not conditional-it is steadfast and unshakable. I sent my Son, Jesus, to take on the weight of your sin,  to bear the punishment you deserved. Why?  Because I love you. Not because you earned it, but because I chose you.  Before you ever reached for me, I reached for you.  This is the depth of my love-unending, sacrificial, unwavering. 

Remember this: you are loved beyond measure.” author unknown

(Oh how I wish I could acknowledge and thank the author who too sits with his God.) 

And again,  his love must have crushed his heart.