No Wonder They Call Him The Savior

I read a book, I know, novel concept - no pun intended. It was a really good book. One of those books that makes you think about things and question things you thought you know but never cared or thought to fully understand. Its called No Wonder They Call Him The Savior by Max Lucado. I read it a few weeks ago while I was sitting outside gyms in Redding waiting for the NBC camps to be done so I could go back to campus. I decided that since I haven't posted anything even remotely personal lately, that I would start by sharing some of the things this book made me think about, the things from this book that stood out to me.

"The cross...its tragedy summons all sufferers, its absurdity attracts all cynics. Its hope lures all searchers." 'The cross is either history's hinge or history's hoax, there is no other option.'

"We're angry but don't know who we're angry at; we're scared but we don't know what we're scared of."

Here's something to get you thinking - Jesus' love for us does not depend upon what we do for Him.

"Forgiveness follows failure."

"Rest well sweet soldier, the battle is over."

"The rubber of faith meets the road of reality under hardship."

Or how about this one: the disciples. We don't know where they went that weekend, but we know they came back. They might have been halfway home, on their way back to their former lives, trying to understand all that had happened. Maybe they had completely given up, we don't know. But, we know they came back. Not only did they come back, but they all came back to the same place - the Upper Room. "From all sections of the city they appeared. Too convicted to go home, yet too confused to go on. Something in their nature refused to let them give up. Something in those words spoken by the Master pulled them back together. Too ashamed to ask for forgiveness, yet too loyal to give up. Too guilty to be counted in, but too faithful to be counted out."
How far did you get before the loyalty and faith came back into play, and you turned around and headed to the room?

Jesus as "a once upon a time storyteller with a somewhere over the rainbow promise."

Grace. A crazy, Holy grace. If grace were logical, it wouldn't be grace.

Ha!!! The two men who buried Christ - Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea - were members of the SANHEDRIN. The very group that had Him killed. Hmmm...

"Tears are tiny drops of humanity. They drip, drop and pour from the corner of our souls, carrying with them the deepest emotions we possess."

"God, may we never be so 'educated,' may we never be so 'mature,' may we never be so 'religious' that we can see Your passion without tears."

Contentment is when what we have overshadows what we want.

"Just when we find a place where God would never be (like on a cross), we look again and there He is, in the flesh."

Just some things to make you think, lastly - think on this, and know that you are loved by the Creator of the universe.

"Whatever you have done, whatever you have become, it doesn't matter, please come home."