Wednesday, August 27, 2008
A LOVE WORTH GIVING - MAX LUCADO
''Would you do what Jesus did?
He swapped a spotless castle for a grimy stable.
He exchanged the worship of angles for the company of killers.
He could hold the universe in His palm but gave it up in the womb of a maiden.
If you were God, would you sleep on straw, nurse from a breast, and be clothed in a diaper?
I wouldn't. But Christ did.
If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come?
If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care?
If you knew that tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you,
the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them?
Christ did.
Would you regard the immobile and invalid more important than yourself?
Jesus did.
He humbled Himself.
He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw.
From holding starts to clutching Mary's finger.
The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier.
Why?
Because that's what love does.
It puts the beloved before itself.''
-Ariella JoanNorth A
wrote at ;; 8:00 PM
