Good morning! The love of the Lord leads us to gather this morning with our Bible, the Word of God. Suppose you wanted to adopt a child. The orphanage showed you all of the children at play from behind a mirrored surface. Over in a corner sits an eight-year old child. Now this child is obviously precocious as they say, but not in the way a doting parent might expect. He sits dealing cards, with the largest stack of chips on his side, smoking a cigarette, and holding a bottle of beer. Perhaps a bit of five o-clock shadow is beginning to show on his young face. As you watch, it is also obvious that he is the bully of the playground. Would this child be your first choice for adoption? Probably not.
Yet, all of us were, metaphorically speaking, just like that when Jesus found us. If some of you ladies did not have five o'clock shadows at the age of eight, don't worry, I'm sure a beard is not required of everyone. The wonderful thing is that Jesus not only adopted us in our worst and most sinful state, he also gave his life to pay the sin debt that we owed to the justice of God. Would you or I have given our lives for the little card playing bully mentioned above? We would have to think about that one for a while, simply sharing a home would be quite the burden to be sure. Jesus didn't think twice about giving his life for us, and then he told us that he was going to prepare a new home for us! Great is the love of Christ!
God's great love goes with you this day!
Bucky
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