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Easter: 'The Truth, Bitter and Beautiful'
By Stan Friedman
CHICAGO, IL (April 14, 2006) - Editor's note: In preparation for Easter,
Covenant Communications is sharing a series of devotionals. The
following comes from Stan Friedman, staff writer and ordained Covenant
pastor.
There – nailed to the cross, stranded, bleeding, gasping, crying, "My
God! My God!" – there is the truth, bitter and beautiful.
Behold ! See what your sin has wrought.
Yes, your sin, as much as anyone's. No reason to compare really, yet
still the protest, "At least I'm not like...." Go ahead. Insert the names.
List them all, if it makes you feel better. But you've been caught.
So confess. That's all there is left to do really. Confess that your
sin made it all come to this. Confess that despite your feelings of
guilt and sorrow, you're glad it's him and not you up there; you
wouldn't trade places with him if you could.
Confess that his thoughts are not your thoughts and that his ways are
not your ways. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so also are
his ways higher than your ways. You can't begin to comprehend the
breadth, the length, the height and depth.
Confess - so much greater is his love than your love.
It is the truth, bitter and beautiful.
Editor's note: to read earlier devotionals, please see:
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