Sacrament Thoughts
July 14th, 2025 by G.
He did not die for you in vain. He would not have agonized for you if He didn’t think–if He didn’t know–that you and He could put you right.
So right. Right beyond your ken. Right in your soul like an atom bomb, right in your happiness like a house on fire.
Unlike us mortals, He is not addicted to grand gestures and Lost Causes. He aims to win. Even in His moments of maddest passion in the Garden and on the Cross, there was iron calculation. The numbers added up. The sums cashed out. You are ROI.
Zen
July 15, 2025
I have been fascinated calling Gethsemane and the Cross, his Passion. As if he was there not merely suffering it, but embracing it with gusto and zeal, with intensity. Suffering yes, but the kind of suffering you have when doing something you love and accomplishing something you have dreamt of for years, for your entire life.
…Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,… Heb. 12:2
Wesley Dean
July 16, 2025
Thank you for writing this truth.
Rozy
July 20, 2025
@Zen, your comment made me think of going through childbirth. “. . . not merely suffering it, but embracing it with gusto and zeal, with intensity. Suffering yes, but the kind of suffering you have when doing something you love and accomplishing something you have dreamt of for years, for your entire life.” That’s how I felt bringing a new life to mortality, five times. We are spiritually begotten sons and daughters of Jesus Christ, so the comparison makes sense, at least to me.
Zen
July 20, 2025
@Rpzy
That is a very interesting comparison, between the Cross and bringing a new life into existence. That is very potent combination of ideas. That deserves some thought.
Thanks