"The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” -John 10:17-18
What Jesus is saying in this verse makes him worthy of every bit of my praise and trust and obedience for the rest of my life, even if I never see another good day. I wish I had atleast a centimeter’s worth of this kind of obedience. I mean He had authority over his own life, but he was obedient to his father. I mean, what? He wanted us SO bad and loved and trusted His father THAT much to willingly die by his own authority? I want to depend on Jesus this much. To trust Him that much that when He tells me to do something, I can’t not do it. Easter is my favorite holiday. Sure because everything is so cute and colorful and I get fun family time, but the joy that surrounds Easter is what I’m all about. Celebrating the cross without all the decorations and presents and stress is awesome, and I like this verse for Easter. It's the holiday where we get to just love the crap out of the fact that He went to the cross for us and it was never in his plan to stay in the grave, to stay away from us. We don’t have to be like the disciples on Saturday, wondering what there was to hope for anymore. To be left with how Jesus was dead and left to think “what now?” Nope, we get the scriptures that tell the whole story, even the part that is coming and we get to celebrate it all. Jack read the first lines in Genesis in the children’s Jesus Storybook Bible in the sermon on Sunday: “The Bible isn’t about you and what you should do, it’s about God and what He has done.” Love that. He has done more than we deserve, more than we will ever understand, and more than we could ever pay him back for with any good we may do. Go Easter!
What Jesus is saying in this verse makes him worthy of every bit of my praise and trust and obedience for the rest of my life, even if I never see another good day. I wish I had atleast a centimeter’s worth of this kind of obedience. I mean He had authority over his own life, but he was obedient to his father. I mean, what? He wanted us SO bad and loved and trusted His father THAT much to willingly die by his own authority? I want to depend on Jesus this much. To trust Him that much that when He tells me to do something, I can’t not do it. Easter is my favorite holiday. Sure because everything is so cute and colorful and I get fun family time, but the joy that surrounds Easter is what I’m all about. Celebrating the cross without all the decorations and presents and stress is awesome, and I like this verse for Easter. It's the holiday where we get to just love the crap out of the fact that He went to the cross for us and it was never in his plan to stay in the grave, to stay away from us. We don’t have to be like the disciples on Saturday, wondering what there was to hope for anymore. To be left with how Jesus was dead and left to think “what now?” Nope, we get the scriptures that tell the whole story, even the part that is coming and we get to celebrate it all. Jack read the first lines in Genesis in the children’s Jesus Storybook Bible in the sermon on Sunday: “The Bible isn’t about you and what you should do, it’s about God and what He has done.” Love that. He has done more than we deserve, more than we will ever understand, and more than we could ever pay him back for with any good we may do. Go Easter!
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