Breaker's Encounter

Encounter
As I was thinking back,
back to a day,
it was mid-day,
but the sky was black like midnight.
Seeing a lifeless body impaled by nails
suffering the blast of hell,
caught my attention cause it looked like a blood bath as I
looked past and saw a broken man
soaked in the white hot wrath of God and I asked why.
I found some answers in His bloody face.
A face I began to recognize in the background of every instance of my life, I ignored.
Suddenly sense his spirits presence soothing my rude, rude soul.
Though ruined by the world’s view,
He wooed me,
though crude and without a clue and
screwed up out of my mind
He pursued me ‘til He made me holy.
Whole. 

This weekend is huge in Christianity, but it also was the one history altering event that, only a few other events can also say, has stood the test of time. one event in 6000+ years of history. one event that stands out over all the rest. and that one event was a brutal death. that one event was a torture at the hands of professional killers. that one event was at the expense of the most greatest gift ever given, and I guarantee, Christ wouldnt have had it any other way. 

but where were you during this event? where were you when the sky turned black as midnight at high noon? where were you when the nails were driven and the spear pierced His side? we were there. we watched. in some way we participated. even if it was nothing but our sin that God Himself poured out on Christ, we were there. Christ bore the entirety of all of mankind's sin and grief and pain and confusion and brokenness and bitterness and selfishness and you fill in the blank here, not because He wanted to, but rather He loved us and continues to love us to do it. it is in that bloody face that we find answers. it is in that broken body we find life. it is in that state that He hung on the cross, He came down, and pursued us. He called us by name until we could no longer stand that beautiful sound of His voice, and we turned. though we were so messed up and screwed up and warped and had no direction to go, we turned to Him and accepted His free gift of righteousness and forgiveness, and in the blink of an eye, we became holy. HOLY!!!!!!!! 

you might be asking but wait, why? why would He do this for me? it is simple, He loves you. He loves you so much that He didnt want you to spend all of eternity away from Him, so He came to make a way to make it to heaven. He met with the appointment of death, and instead of stopping at death like everyone else, He blasted straight through, still experiencing death, but then continuing on to make a way through death for us. We still have that appointment, everyone does, but it is what we do now that makes the difference. There is only one thing. It isnt good works, or baptism or going to church or anything else good we might do, no it is accepting that fact that we are all sinners bound towards a sinners hell and not on our way to a perfect heaven. then we must believe that Christ came to died for our individual sins, not the corporate sins(he did but not in dealing with salvation) and that he died for you. He came and died just for you. when you believe that with your heart, you then must confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. It is then that you are a child of the king, and this isnt a get out of hell free card, but rather an invitation to join Him in communion and fellowship and begin a relationship with Him, because He loves you that much. that is when you are made Holy and Whole!