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“Only Beginning”
It’s over, thought the soldiers who crossed Him, who secured Savior to the very promise they denied. Who near tied trunks together with life. But Jesus’ pinning was no victory save for God Himself. As for the nails; these were simply man’s help.
Jesus was hand-picked. When He died, He didn’t fall off the tree like the pruned. He was taken down. And far more like a firstfruit chosen to be consumed, than as Caiaphas thought he’d accomplished. Jesus’ life was hardly over.
In a blink of God’s eye, this same crucifixion which had so temporarily brought reprieve to Pilate’s gut, turned from travesty to mystery. Because no longer was this some Roman justice carried out. It was God’s.
As for the Here, I AM; He was only beginning.
It’s over, thought the soldiers who crossed Him, who secured Savior to the very promise they denied. Who near tied trunks together with life. But Jesus’ pinning was no victory save for God Himself. As for the nails; these were simply man’s help.
Jesus was hand-picked. When He died, He didn’t fall off the tree like the pruned. He was taken down. And far more like a firstfruit chosen to be consumed, than as Caiaphas thought he’d accomplished. Jesus’ life was hardly over.
In a blink of God’s eye, this same crucifixion which had so temporarily brought reprieve to Pilate’s gut, turned from travesty to mystery. Because no longer was this some Roman justice carried out. It was God’s.
As for the Here, I AM; He was only beginning.
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About this Plan
Jesus wasn’t lent. He was given. Which means, Here is why Easter doesn’t begin with Good Friday, but Bethlehem. Here is why Jesus is not conditioned by the rules you keep, but you are positioned by those He kept perfectly. Here is why death is forever defeated and you can walk the pages of God’s Word with washed feet. Here is why you are rising, even now as you read, and resurrection doesn’t culminate on Sundays. Here is Christ. Jesus is the Here I AM.
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