It is Easter this coming weekend so I am going to write an entery for Easter. I have had this entery planned for about a month but I thought it was a good idea to come back to it before Easter so I am. This idea came from the "Experiencing God" Bible study will be finishing up next week. It was a new perspective for me and I am hoping it is for you too. It really got to me when I was studying that certain week. I couldn't get the thought out of my mind.
It is a good thought to have because it can dinfantly help us love and be more like Jesus. I don't remember the exact quote right now but this is what it came down too: "Jesus dieing on the cross was His major adjustment in His Life". Now let's think on that a moment before I start explaining what it means to me. Maybe even pray that God will show you and keep that idea on your mind for this Easter weekend. I gave it a 2 min. Break from typing to give you time to think.
Jesus and His Major Adjustment. It really got me thinking about the little adjustments that I think are so big in my life. Compared to the cross, they are really, really small. There is a list right before this entery to give you some ideas of what adjustments can be. When you look at that list, you just feel silly but really grateful or should feel that way. Just think how many little adjustments Jesus had to make to stay on that's path for us. For people, He didn't even know and mean people he did know. He knew what God had planned for Him because He was God. He could have said "no" but He loved us enough not to say that.
It just goes to show that we are weak and need His Help. He has gone through the things we are going through now. He really does understand us. We get so worked up about the little and big adjustments in our lives. It could be us changing clothes because we spilled something on them to changing our career. It could also be trying to put positive thoughts in our mind to changing how we eat. One more thing it could be like: having our friends change on us to losing a family member. Yes, for me, these are all adjustments I've had made or am making right now or at least trying to.
You could even look at the list before this entery and put mine and yours in one of the groups. I think it is amazing that there are only 4 groups for our whole lives. Just thinking about the week before His death on the cross, He had to go through a lot of adjustments as well as most people. Jesus had to be okay with doing what God wanted Him to do. He even asked to take the Act away if possible but God didn't want to because He loved is that much. Jesus had to have a meal knowing it would be his last so it probably didn't go as usual so that might have been an adjustment. They went back to the place where they all met each other and that was an adjustment for everyone not just Jesus because it would be a place of sorrow now and not of joy. Jesus and the others even lost a friend through all of this and that friend was Judah.
It is a good thought to have because it can dinfantly help us love and be more like Jesus. I don't remember the exact quote right now but this is what it came down too: "Jesus dieing on the cross was His major adjustment in His Life". Now let's think on that a moment before I start explaining what it means to me. Maybe even pray that God will show you and keep that idea on your mind for this Easter weekend. I gave it a 2 min. Break from typing to give you time to think.
Jesus and His Major Adjustment. It really got me thinking about the little adjustments that I think are so big in my life. Compared to the cross, they are really, really small. There is a list right before this entery to give you some ideas of what adjustments can be. When you look at that list, you just feel silly but really grateful or should feel that way. Just think how many little adjustments Jesus had to make to stay on that's path for us. For people, He didn't even know and mean people he did know. He knew what God had planned for Him because He was God. He could have said "no" but He loved us enough not to say that.
It just goes to show that we are weak and need His Help. He has gone through the things we are going through now. He really does understand us. We get so worked up about the little and big adjustments in our lives. It could be us changing clothes because we spilled something on them to changing our career. It could also be trying to put positive thoughts in our mind to changing how we eat. One more thing it could be like: having our friends change on us to losing a family member. Yes, for me, these are all adjustments I've had made or am making right now or at least trying to.
You could even look at the list before this entery and put mine and yours in one of the groups. I think it is amazing that there are only 4 groups for our whole lives. Just thinking about the week before His death on the cross, He had to go through a lot of adjustments as well as most people. Jesus had to be okay with doing what God wanted Him to do. He even asked to take the Act away if possible but God didn't want to because He loved is that much. Jesus had to have a meal knowing it would be his last so it probably didn't go as usual so that might have been an adjustment. They went back to the place where they all met each other and that was an adjustment for everyone not just Jesus because it would be a place of sorrow now and not of joy. Jesus and the others even lost a friend through all of this and that friend was Judah.
Just in one day He had his clothes torn off and had to carry the cross up the hill by himself. His clothes were given away and He was given over to the Jews to be beaten. Don't forget about Him having to go to another city to do all of these things on a donkey at that. Just think of all the hard adjustments He had to go through in that one week. Don't you feel blessed even with the adjustments in our lives? Sometimes and most of the time it is just the little adjustments throughout the week so we think it would and is easy. If we really want to follow God, though, we have to think about adjusting the hard things to just like He did for us. Adjusting things also says a lot about Loving people but that could be for a whole other entry so I am not going there right now.
For me, it just puts things in a little bit of a different outlook for this Easter. I think that is what God is trying to teach me. He is trying to say that it is okay if things have to adjust in your life and they will have to if you want and are willing to follow me but I will be right beside you every step of the way if you will let me. I can say that, me personally, I am seeing things about my personal self that I need to change but it is hard because I have been that way since I can remember but I never knew what or how to get rid of it but now I do. I see that it is holding me back and because of that it needs to get out of my life. Things with past jobs and relationships are still bothering me to this day but I am seeing why and asking God to help me change for the better.
Challenge this Easter: "Think about the adjustments you had to make in your life so far or even just this past or present week. Does it compare to what Jesus did for us on the cross at all?"
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