If you could give anything to anybody….what would it be? If money were no object and you had this day to shop what would you do? Race to the mall and buy out the stores, get a new car for a family member, buy that killer ring? That’s not big enough thinking….what if you had everything in this world and beyond….where would you start?

Some of us are noble enough we would wave a wand and say “let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me,” or maybe make it possible for all the service men and women to come home and stay….never having to leave again. Cure all the illness and mend broken hearts ….make it possible for the poor to have hope. Fix everything broken and make sad ones happy. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well, it’s already been done.

That’s exactly what a loving heavenly Father did for us over two thousand years ago. He sent His only son to die….. that we might have the riches, peace, health, love and the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in this life and beyond. I remember reading once of how the rich could hire a man to fight in the Civil War in his place. This was done because someone could afford the luxury and another man couldn’t. The poor man went in his place hoping to come home and have a good life with his family. If he was killed, he lost the gamble….but his family could survive with the monies given them.

It’s the same with God. He asked His son to die in our place….there was no gamble. He would have to die. He knew that going in. He came anyway. He did die in our place and the riches are ours for the asking.

How does this work?

I don’t know.

I only know it does.

Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther