Holy Week 2018

This is literally my favorite week of the year. This week holds so much weight to a Christian’s life because this is the week that Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins. 

I’ve been doing a lot of reflection this week on my walk with God and I think if most Christians can choose one word to describe the center of a relationship with God I think most would choose love. It’s one of the first things I learned when it came to Christianity: that Christ died because He loved me. 

If you follow me on Instagram, you know how much I was deeping this seemingly simple / basic truth. But when you really think about the weight this gift holds, you’ll understand why I was almost crying in the middle fo my campus this week. I feel, I could be completely wrong, that this is one of those things that’s said so much to someone, especially if they’ve grown up in the church, that they could eventually start becoming numb to it and it becomes more of just something you know / say and the weight of it becomes a little less as more years pass. Maybe because people see it as basic, or “elementary” but it’s really the foundation of our faith.

John 3:16 (NIV) says: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

To not lose the weight of this verse, I have to make it personal. So this week I thought, “For God so loved me…” And when I tell you for about 30 minutes I couldn’t get passed that part, so much came to me. I thought, Why would He choose me? Doesn’t He know all the things I’ve done? All the mistakes I’ve made? Why would He love me in this way? And what really, really struck me was that, I was not even alive yet, not even kind of in the making, not even existing in a human’s mind, and yet, He loved me. He knew exactly what I would do, exactly how my life would go. He knew how many times a lie would leave my lips, how many times I would pass judgement on someone, how many times I’d stumble in my faith or ignore His voice in this life and He still decided that I was worth it.  It was not by chance, or coincidence. He didn’t choose us by luck. It was perfectly orchestrated by our Creator.  What kind of love is that? It’s an overwhelming kind of love. An unfathomable kind of love. A love that makes you surrender because there’s nothing else you can do. It’s a great kind of love, an amazing love. 

I shared that this kind of love, the “in spite of” kind of love is one that so many of us look for in humans. What a lot of them have failed to realized is that the only One who can give us that kind of love is God. That’s what makes Him so great. If we were able to find this kind of love easily, we wouldn’t need Him! 

What makes this Friday “good”? I think it’s the fact that God loves me so much that He decided to make the Sacrifices of sacrifices. That He gave us a second chance knowing that one day there would be people walking this Earth ready to accept the love He has for us and spread it other people. I think this Friday is good because He is good. And forever He will be.

*If you’ve never experienced the love of God and have a desire, even just a small one, to do so, please do not hesitate to message me. God is always ready to accept someone with open arms.

Much love always,

Kumam 💖