I just read this and it really spoke to me: "...my life began changing when I stopped setting goals for where I wanted to be and started setting goals for who I wanted to be...There is no downside to making growth your goal." - John Maxwell
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Stolen From Mark Batterson
Not a single word of this is mine...I ripped it off from Mark Batterson:
This thought keeps going through my mind today: I am Barabbas.
Imagine what that Friday must have been like for him. He was sitting in a jail cell awaiting his execution. He knew it was the last day of his life. It was the end. There was no hope. Then he hears the crowd chanting his name and the next thing he knows he's a free man. The charges are dropped. His life that was almost over starts over. And a sinless man named Jesus literally takes his place. He expected to die. He deserved to die. But his execution, in the sovereign plan of God, was scheduled on the same day Jesus was arrested.
If ever there was a picture of II Corinthians 5:21 this is it: "God made him who knew no sin to become sin for us."
I am Barabbas.
This thought keeps going through my mind today: I am Barabbas.
Imagine what that Friday must have been like for him. He was sitting in a jail cell awaiting his execution. He knew it was the last day of his life. It was the end. There was no hope. Then he hears the crowd chanting his name and the next thing he knows he's a free man. The charges are dropped. His life that was almost over starts over. And a sinless man named Jesus literally takes his place. He expected to die. He deserved to die. But his execution, in the sovereign plan of God, was scheduled on the same day Jesus was arrested.
If ever there was a picture of II Corinthians 5:21 this is it: "God made him who knew no sin to become sin for us."
I am Barabbas.
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