The Ultimate Price

I was recently asked what my favorite toys were as a child. I might have been a little different than most girls. I loved my favorite baby doll, but I equally loved playing with Army Jeeps.

I grew up during the Vietnam War. I watched the news with my parents. I remember my mom crying, and my dad shaking his head in disgust about all our soldiers dying for another countries cause. I'd go outside and become the Super Nurse who saved everyone. I jumped in my jeep, and arrived just in time to save every soldier! I never tired, and was invincible from bombs or gunfire!

Ironically, I'd still like to be the super hero who saves everyone, but I can't. People make choices and they have to live with the consequences. Sometimes I have no idea how to help, other times my advice is slung like dung to the closest flusher.

Imagine how Jesus felt as He faced Calvary for you and me. The perfect lamb, who knew no sin, yet He was about to die for our sins. He was the perfect solution; His perfect life crucified, to pay for our eternal life. Yet there would be those who would reject His ultimate love and sacrifice.

"Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father glorify your name!" John 12:27 & 28 (NIV)

"Then Jesus cried out, "When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. When he looks at me he sees the one who sent me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." John 12: 44-46

Timing is Vital

"For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man's misery weighs heavy on him. since no man knows the future, who is to tell him what is to come?" Ecclesiastes 8-5 and 6 (NIV)

"Trust Him at all times, O people pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge." Psalm 62:8 (NIV)

Have you ever noticed there is a timing and rhythm to almost everything in life? For example if baby sea turtles hatch in the morning sunlight, they are likely to be breakfast for birds, alligators or other predators, on their way to the water. But if they hatch before the light they are likely to scurry to the ocean before anything knows they've hatched.

God's timing in every situation is vital. Let Him prompt your actions. Don't delay or jump ahead of His leading. He will use you in His time! In His time He makes all things beautiful!