A New Grasp on a Son's Love

I find this Easter a deep revelation made known to me as I meditate on scripture; hence why I so LOVE His word.  There is nothing like it.  It's alive and so deep.  Every time I sit with the intent of wanting Him to teach me He just takes off another layer from my eyes and reveals more.   It keeps you coming back.  There's no other book like it!!

Our youth for the last 2 weeks have been preparing our hearts for Easter as we physically carry crosses up mountains and relive the scriptures being told.  Then watching the Passion and the deepness of His pain and agony.  Then to witness how many of our young people congregated together at the front of the church both Good Friday and today to worship our Lord, truly blessed me.

All the time in my own heart carrying around the pain of His death as I teach on it wanting to bring the fellowship of His sufferings alive as I best I could for our youth.  Then in quiet reflection I'm awestruck by this hidden treasure in John 14:30,31 (Jesus speaking to his disciples right before he goes to His crucifixion) "the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me."

I know we've heard it before. But read it again... "Satan has NO HOLD ON ME", Jesus said.  So in that very moment even as He was dying the enemy had NO HOLD ON HIM.... He couldn't touch Jesus.  BUT rather.... HIS OWN desire... HIS OWN TEACHING ON LOVE was what drove Him.  "The world MUST LEARN that I love the Father."....  This indeed was going on in me, I was learning.  He loved His Father more than anything.  I can just imagine Him saying to me, "Carrie, you have no idea how amazing the Father is.... He is God and He is so awesome... I love Him more than anything and I will surely pour out my life in excruciating pain, to prove this undying love."  This love relationship that they had is one that I continue to learn and the only way I truly learn is because He has given of Himself in His Holy Spirit that lives within me and teaches me this deep love.  The Spirit teaches us the mind of Christ and the deep things of God.  He helps us obey His commands as this proves our love.  It's so beautiful. Such a profound mystery.

You see it really was all about a love relationship that won the battle.  A love that isn't of this world.  A love that came from heaven and now is deposited into our hearts as a seal, a sign of adoption that we too are immersed in this love relationship.  Wow... when we truly let go of fear and begin to allow His Spirit to lead and guide and love us unconditionally... the confidence that comes would allow us too laugh in the face of death.  For its lost it's hold.   May my love for the Father and now His Son be so intense that above all else the world would declare she truly loved Him, even if faced with death.  But beyond that... oh to know that I pleased our LORD.  That is what I desire most.

Nothing could hold my Jesus.  Not the prince of darkness, nor death, not even the grave.  And yet today this same Jesus allows us to BEHOLD Him.  Wow...