he hung on a cross...

...for us

"we despised him and rejected him—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. we turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. he was despised, and we didn’t care. yet it was our grief he bore, our sorrows that weighed him down. and we thought his troubles were a punishment from god, for his own sins!" isaiah 53:3-4 tlb

what we forgot back then - and today as well - is that it is our own sins he bore - on that awful day as he hung there - arms outstretched - god had to look away momentarily in order - to offer up his own son - to bear the unbearable weight of the worlds sin - imagine that, if you can

then imagine, once borne - god looking back - with an inconceivable love for all mankind - which will never be broken - and how that leads to...

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happy day.....