Monday, November 11, 2019

My Hat!

  So there I was, sitting on a plane, waiting.  The plane should have pushed back from the gate, but still we waited, for no obvious reason.  I had a movie to watch and the time passed quickly, but 30 minutes into the delay, the pilot announces, "Sorry for the delay.  To make a long story short, a mechanic's hat was sucked into the air conditioner and they have to take the whole system apart."
  It was another 45 minutes before the repair was done and the paperwork completed.  The hat was saved, but it cost a plane of several hundred people over an hour, and then delayed the next flight as well.  All for a hat.

  God's love works like that.  There is no one too inconsequential that God would not pay the ultimate price to liberate them from sin and death.  We all feel small and wonder about our role in the cosmic drama, but God pours his love out on each of us.  As Augustine says, God loves each of us as if there was only one to love.  Though the price may seem huge, God will gladly pay it to redeem even one from the bondage of death.

  You are loved, and you are worth the price, even the sacrifice of God's own Son on a cross, to redeem you.

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