Friday Night Thoughts

“Jesus, thank You for killing Your Son so that You didn’t have to kill me.” The quotation you just read is what I read a couple days back while scrolling through social media. After I read it, I went back and read it again. It really made me think. Like, something along the lines of, “why the heck did Jesus die for me? It makes no sense”. The more I thought about it, the more it hit me. I find it crazy how the same story can make me feel the same way but in a different way so many times. Yes, I am emotional. But if you really know me, about 96.5% of the time I get emotional, it is something that has to do with my faith and/or the Holy Spirit. Yeah, other things make me emotional, but nothing does like my Savior. The past few days I’ve been thinking, “why does the story of Jesus always affect my emotions so much, yet no other story does?” Well, because of one thing that the story involves that no movie/book does. Me. The story of Jesus makes me emotional because it’s a story of Jesus looking at me, undeserving of His mercy, yet He delights in me anyways, and decides to die for all of my iniquities and transgressions, giving me the opportunity to never experience what I once had to, because of my separation from God *long inhale*. Jesus isn’t waiting for me to “reach my potential”. He loves me as I am. Impure, gross, and unworthy. It just gets me every time. I guess in writing this all, I have one thought. Why isn’t the story of Jesus and His redemptive love preached and/or talked about more? Yeah, we talk about it during the Christmas and Easter season, and the occasional clip art Facebook post from a 50 year old mom (sorry not sorry), but why not every day? Why doesn’t Jesus’ power to continually save us get the attention it deserves. Yeshua is so underrated. -Jack Hilsher

P.S. Sorry there was no Scripture today :/ Also, shoot me a message if there are any topics you’d be interested in me writing about. Thanks!