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Reconciled

Monday, 23 April 2007

There is a moving and true story of a little girl whose parents were unhappily married and were going through a period of temporary separation. Although the parents had lost their affection for each other, their love for their young daughter, their only child, was strong and deep. One day, as the little girl was playing in the street, she was knocked down by a car and seriously injured. Rushed to hospital, she was examined by several doctors who soon realised there was nothing they could do for her.

The parents hurried to the hospital and stood, one on either side of the bed, looking down helplessly at the daughter they loved so dearly. As they were standing there, the child's eyes suddenly opened and, seeing her father and mother leaning over her, she tried to greet them with a smile. For a few moments she lay quite still, then, pulling her arms out from underneath the blanket, she held them out to her parents. They both put one hand in hers and slowly she drew them together. Within minutes she was gone. Following the little girl's tragic death, the parents were fully reconciled to each other and within a few years had another child - a beautiful son.

What a picture this is of what Christ did for us on the cross. All illustrations of what God has done for us in Christ are inadequate and imperfect, but this one serves to make the point that on the cross our Saviour took the hand of sinful man and placed it in the hand of a loving heavenly Father. At Calvary our wonderful Saviour reconciled us to God.

"But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." John 12:32

(Taken from Every Day With Jesus 22 April 2007 entry, written by Selwyn Hughes)

giving thanks at 10:48 :)