Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Monday 03/28/2011)

Today’s Devotional Written by An Inspired Individual, Who God Is Using: Mrs. Tracy A. Dixon

Calvary…Was it Wasted On You?

Matthew 27:28-30 (New Living Translation)

²⁸ They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. ²⁹ They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!” ³⁰ And they spit on him and grabbed the stick and struck him on the head with it. 

Today’s message in the music comes from Bruno Mars’ song “Grenade”. The chorus says: Gave you all I had. And you tossed it in the trash. You tossed it in the trash, you did. To give me all your love is all I ever asked. Cause what you don't understand is…..I’d catch a grenade for ya. Throw my hand on a blade for ya. I’d jump in front of a train for ya. You know I'd do anything for ya. I would go through all this pain. Take a bullet straight through my brain. Yes, I would die for ya baby. But you won't do the same.

The words pretty much say it all. Last week while having family time, Jai and I performed this song as a concert for Shane. Jai says that this is her song, and in the midst of playing around the spirit of God fell upon me like a ton of bricks. He told me to listen to the words and then He showed me that this was His song. He gave us His only begotten son Jesus to die for us, and some of us still choose to trash our lives every day. He took whips, hits, kicks, spit, punches, slang, lies, gossip, betrayal, hurt, doubt, pain, and even death for us on Calvary, and some of us won’t even give our lives to Him. Some confess salvation but won’t stop cursing, drinking, lying, clubbing and cheating.

What an insult to Christ that He would lay down His life for us, and we won’t lay down our pride, our will or our sinful nature to please Him. We want the blood and power of the cross but not the conviction and responsibility of it. God is not playing in this season and He is throwing out some grenades of His own. It’s time to give back to God. It’s time to lay down some things, turn over some plates, and sacrifice some lustful wants to show God that Calvary wasn’t wasted on us. He did not just tell us we meant more to Him than life itself, He proved it. He came to Earth and died for us. Let us wake up and live for Him.