Len sent this to my inbox. It is a terrific poem. I hope it blesses you.
GRACE...
Multiply the innocence on the face
of your favorite child
times infinity.
Surround it with darkness,
cruel jealousy and sin.
Now look to Golgotha: Behold
the face of the purest heart
ever beheld by angels or men,
bloodied and battered,
spat upon and cursed,
and crying . . .
"Father! forgive them...
Father! forgive them...
I offer my self
in their place,
for their soul.
Forgive them."
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Cf. Isaiah 53. Psalms 22 and 88. Matthew 27:33-54.
Luke 23:32-44.
John 18:4-11; 19:29-37.
I was talking to Pam (Yeah! We are talking again!) and I just had it in my mind to share a recent grace in my life. I wrote this as an encouragement:
... and time is stretched thin, but I have found this to be true, God will stretch time for His children, and give them more then 24 hours in a day, if they ask for it. It is weird, but I have had 3 meetings in the span of an hour and a half, while running behind schedule and facing traffic that makes the road trip longer then 2 hours just for that ... and yet, I swear that it is true, an answer to prayer makes it so that I reach every appointment on-time in that hour and a half, though it is impossible. I shared this with a few of my sub-contractors and they have reported the same thing. When they needed time to be stretched, God must have done it, because it is impossible to do in one hour what sometimes they are called upon to do, and yet with prayer there seems to be time to spare.
So, I encourage you to ask for these things that you need to get through the day ... if it is to survive 1 month on 1 meal, you can find God's grace for that ... if it is to drive 500 miles on one gallon, God has done it before and can do it again. Those things can't be any harder for Him then stretching time so that a few guys can make their appointments ... Isn't He amazing?!?!
Behold the Lamb of God! Without spot or blemish sent to die for the sins of the world, bearing the full weight of transgression in His own body. My Son, you are, and will always be, the Risen Lamb of God, whereby you took the leaven of the world, having completely unleavened all men once for all time by your blood, having been the perfect sacrifice for sin, acceptable to God, whereby men have been reconciled to the Father; they themselves becoming once again My sons and daughters free to enter the Garden and My love, which they shall never again be separated; their new life lived in and for Christ Jesus, the Lord and Savior, in whom I am well pleased. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 5 - Unleavened]