When the past is too painful to look at, and the future too ashamed to hope of.
When heaviness sets in, and you find youself wondering if things will ever be made right once again.
Nothing can prepare us sufficiently when the Savior breaks through the walls surrounding you....and you find yourself suddenly being delightfully surprised....a surprise that brings deep relief from within.
Makes me wonder....if we feel so excited unveiling a surprise gift prepared all the way back for a person, would He feel that excitement as well...as He prepares for the right time to step through the wall, to surprise His child...?
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“They were fearful and terrified…but Jesus said,
‘Why are you troubled?…It is I myself!’”
Luke 24:37-38
They had betrayed their Master. When Jesus needed them they had scampered. And now they were having to deal with the shame.
Seeking forgiveness, but not knowing where to look for it, the disciples came back. They gravitated to that same upper room that contained the sweet memories of broken bread and symbolic wine…
They came back. Each with a scrapbook full of memories and a thin thread of hope. Each knowing that it is all over, but in his heart hoping that the impossible will happen once more. “If I had just on more chance.”…
And just when the gloom gets good and thick, just when their wishful thinking is falling victim to logic, just when someone says, “How I’d give my immortal soul to see him one more time,” a familiar face walks through the wall.
My, what an ending.
Or, better said, what a beginning!
