April 10, 2016
MY FRIENDS, WE SHOULD BE OVERWHELMED HE CALLS US FRIEND!!!
Could an awesome God find common ground within someone like you and I? My friends, I am overwhelmed at the thought that the ruler of the universe, the great I Am, would “Call Me Friend” and take my debt that I would never be able to pay back, and with “compassion, subdued my iniquities, as He cast [my] sins into the depths of the sea! Micah 7:19 (NKJV).
Oh what a price paid for each of us who at times we seemed no better than the Roman soldier that pounded that stake into His hands and feet. And if that wasn’t enough, we then grab a spear and “pierced His side” as we stood around laughing and mocking among the rabble as blood and water flowed from His side. But today, my friends, its personal as I, like the Centurion soldier am in awe of all I Have done to Christ.
And as I picture that innocent face, I say, “Surely this man is the Son of God!” A true friend who has laid down His life for you and I. And at times, all we can
do is cry out and say “Forgive me Jesus, I thought I could control whatever life would throw my way. [But this last encounter with Satan] I will admit Has brought me to my knees. So I need you Lord and I’m not ashamed to say. Sometimes it takes a mountain. Sometimes a troubled sea.
Sometimes it takes a desert, to get a hold of me. Your Love is so much stronger then whatever troubles me Sometimes it takes a mountain, To trust you and believe.” (Gaither Vocal Band, Sometimes It Takes A Mountain) As a child I remember making those long trips from Texas to California in the car to visit my grandparents, but the long trips were always worth it, going to the country where there was only my Grandparents home and another home next door with a kid, same age as I.
Where the color of someone’s skin didn’t factor into a relationship only the enjoyment of each other’s company. And then one summer, the many hours traveling, are we there yet, are we there. The sound of anticipation of two friends playing all day, finally arriving as we carried out the formal salutation with my Grandparents. Now it’s time to go see my friend, the reason I really made that long trip, only to find out my friend had moved away.
Oh the hurt and loneliness I felt for the next two weeks. But my friends, I know and I hope we can all say with no reservation, “Oh what a friend we have in Jesus, because no matter how many miles in this life we have 
traveled, He is always there waiting with outstretched arms, especially those times when we thought we could control “whatever life would throw our way.” When the need of God didn’t seem so important.
“But sometimes it takes a mountain, sometimes a troubled sea,” to realize, oh what a friend we have in Jesus who can control whatever situation and circumstances life throws our way because He finds common ground in all we do because he has traveled this same road and conquered ever mountain along the way while defeating Satan.
And now He is a conquer, who sits at the right hand of the father interceding for our transgressions so that one day through our faith and endurance we my live with our Friend Jesus, in a place “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which [God] has prepared for [all His friends] who love Him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV)
Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.
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