John 10:10
King James Version (KJV)
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
You find it hard to believe that a miracle working, grave abandoning Jesus is capable of so much deliverance and you've been in the same place for several years. It's hard to believe that a man without fault could take on the sins of the world after wrapping himself in human flesh (John 1:14) just to die on a cross for a people who took no thought in persecuting him, who took no thought in beating him literally beyond recognition. Meanwhile you feel as if you're in the third round of a WWE smack down and life is winning. You're in awe of the fact that Jesus (the son of God) once declared dead, rose (Mark 16:9) early Sunday morning with what witnesses described as all power in his hand and you personally don't even have the will power to get up and get dressed in the morning. They say Jesus is on the main line, that he's a present help, they say that he's the beginning and the end, a deliverer, healer, way maker, protector, provider, the lion of Judah, the cornerstone, Mary's baby, the Lamb of God, the great I am, a miracle worker, a wheel in the middle of a wheel, shelter in a time of storm, but today you want him to be a future husband, a new boss better yet a new job, a few dollars in my pocket, a new house, a better car, a college degree, a graduate school opportunity, a financial breakthrough, a paid bill, a something, an anything that would make life a little easier after all isn't that what he died for that I might have a right to have and ask for anything that I need?
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