Back to Basics

Blogging is FUN!

It really is, and it opens up communication with so many family and friends -- old and new. It has been about four years since the last page was published, but it is time!

So where to start?
How do I begin again?

It is back to basics! I think the LORD would have me go once more to the foot of the cross. He wants me there -- not as an unredeemed sinner in need of His saving grace, but as a wandering child who was out of touch with some things this week. Indeed, I have been living in the flesh with "ME" as the center of my pitiable universe.

It is very easy to "forget" how much my sin cost the Savior. A look backward to Calvary to think of the physical agony and the shed blood brings tears. Just considering the lonely burden of bearing the heavy load of my sin while the Father turned His back from my filth is an overwhelming thought.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your LOVE, MERCY, and GRACE.

You came to this earth for such as ME. Your willing sacrifice is more than I ever could deserve.

The first time I realized just how cruel this execution was (rather than the picture story of a clean Jesus on the cross), I was about eight. When that reality struck my heart, I was overcome with grief over the thought that MY sin put Him there. MY rebellion was paid for by my Creator. "He who knew NO sin" took upon Himself the sum total of ALL sin of ALL people for ALL time!

As the hymn says, "Jesus paid it ALL! All to Him I owe." So now my life does not belong to ME. I am not the center of my own, little universe. I am purchased and redeemed by the blood of the spotless Lamb of God who loved me more than I will ever comprehend.

How I thank HIM.