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Don't you feel it? That sense of peace. The anticipation of hope.
The feeling that no matter what's going on in your life, right now in this moment you know that it will be ok.
Because He paid it all for you.
We're all just humans, coming in and out of each other's lives, paying no mind if it hurts the other to see us come and go.
We're all going through things.
We're all hurting.
But during this time, we come together to rejoice.
Because, once a year we stop thinking only about ourselves and point our focus to something greater.
To the One who took our pain, our sins, our struggles upon Himself.
He didn't ask us to do it ourselves.
He didn't tell us to fix our own problems.
He didn't leave us stranded.
No.
He came and He said that we didn't have to hurt alone.
We didn't have to be at fault anymore.
He was like no other human.
He didn't deceive, didn't betray, didn't stab another in the back.
Instead He helped. He healed. He made it better, for us.
Why?
When we seem like such a hopeless people because of all the sin that encompasses us and the pain that we cause to one another and the turning of our backs against each other and against Him.
Why would He take our sins, our pain, and make a way for us to be ok?
A path that leads to no more suffering.
Why would He give us a happy ending that none of us deserve?
One word.
Love.
Because He loves us.
And He can't stand to see the hurt that we're all going through.
He aches at the sight of evil circling the world.
And He only wants what's best for us.
I wonder what would happen if we stopped hurting one another.
If we stopped pointing out each other's flaws, stopped cutting ourselves down, stopped with the fighting, stopped saying things that we know will hurt the other person, stopped doing things out of spite, stopped walking all over one another.
I wonder if things could be better if we actually tried to follow Jesus's footsteps.
If we tried to be nicer, more understanding, more compassionate.
If we cut out any hurtful words from our vocabulary.
If we didn't tell people how to be better, but helped them be better.
Then could we at least lessen the pain that we are only causing ourselves?
I'm not perfect by any standard, nor will I ever be.
And, I am not good enough.
But, Jesus doesn't mind that.
He knows that I'm only human.
And He's the only one who will fully accept that about me.
He just wants to see me try and to be there every step of the way.
And in that, I find hope, even if it is my one and only hope.
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