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Nails that pierced the heart of the world

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, death, Death of Jesus Christ, faith, healing, Inspirational, joy, judging, Loss, love, power, praise, prayer, Thanksgiving, victory, worshipLeave a comment

0-BOOK 7-SHADOW-ChildsCartoonMediumYour love, oh God, appears from the most unlikely and impenetrable places. Like water out of a rock. Like life from a long-dead seed.  Like a pin of light in a deep and dark cave. Let your love burst forth and astonish mankind with a love that refuses defeat. Let your magnificence soar to the uttermost parts of the heavens. Let your victory chain Satan in his hell and shout your glory.

Holy! Holy! Holy! Because of you, Lord God, thieves stop stealing and rise up to call you holy.  Because of you, liars stop lying and raise their voices to call you holy. Because of you, drunks stop drinking and stand up to declare you holy.  Because of you, murderers stop murdering and lift their hearts to announce you holy. Because of you, the selfish stop hoarding and release all they own to  you holy. You are life in its purest form.

Oh, Jesus, that cross was intended to be an instrument of torture and shame outside of Jerusalem but turned into a tower of light for the world. That crown of thorns was intended to be a mockery but turned into a crown of gold that pronounced you king of the world. Those nails were intended to pierce human flesh; instead, it pierced the heart of the world. How can I thank you? How can any of us thank you for rescuing my wounded soul and making me a child of the King?

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Another crown of thorns

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn Death of Jesus Christ, victoryLeave a comment
          This morning I saw yet another picture of “Jesus’s” crown of thorns. It was completely round, nicely intertwined, and completely barren.
          All those pictures ~ pretty much all alike.  But that’s not the way it was. Have you ever formed branches into a circle? They don’t bend exactly round and usually end up lopsided.
          But, what gets me the most is that IT WAS SPRINGTIME. Do you think the soldier took the time to strip all the leaves off the branches?
          And how about the flowers? Boganvelias have thorns on them, but their blooms are beautiful and they abound in the Middle East.  So, when I  imagine the crown of thorns on my Lord, I imagine it lopsided but full of leaves and perhaps even flowers.
          If no flowers, he would have looked like winners of races and wars and kingdoms. Garlands of leaves in the Roman world meant winners.  Yes, what they put on him is what Caesar was sometimes crowned with.
          But Jesus’s? His crown added both pain and pleasure. His had the added thorns. But it also possibly had the added flowers.
          Flowers of spring. Flowers of resurrection.