Desparation

Day after day after day it seems you wallow from the moment you awaken your life is mired in filth and decay. You ask will this be a better day? As your feet hit the dirt floor you realize it will be the same as before. Fear overwhelms you, the thought of struggling with the pain. Abused, entangled and unloved you once again make your way through the obstacles that bind and enslave you. You attempt to find relief once again in the bottle or pill that brought you relief yesterday to no avail as all has returned with even more rage and intensity today.

Forgotten, forlorn, and a fugitive from your family. How will you do it one more day? Just to live until tomorrow presents a struggle, let alone thriving. Hope has long gone. Your future does not extend past your next high or fix. Nothing has changed except the people you spend time with. Every day it seems one has disappeared no questions, no worries, except for that next fix.

Love is your desire to forget. You have not been loved nor have you loved for so long you forget the soft tender touch of your mother or gentle caress of your father. Family?! You wonder if they even exist anymore. It has been so long and so cold since you left home. Can’t even remember the reason just the argument and the hate. You miss them but will not allow them to see you this way. You feel as if they would just say, “I told you so!” Your mind plays games with your emotional state telling you lie after lie. Would it be better if you died?

Is there solace in death? Will you find the rest and peace you desire? If one person cared your life might change. Always looking for the one and not to yourself. You do not have the emotional stamina to stand on your own. Will someone, anyone come to your rescue today?

In a garden, the soldiers come marching through yelling searching for the one, the one who has caused a stir. They will not tolerate another radical leader enticing the people to riot and chaos. They find the man drenched in his own blood and drag him away.

Through the night he is questioned and judged. He is found to be without fault, however, at the demand of the people he will be flogged and then put to death. All that he had done was bring a message of love, forgiveness and healing yet he was despised and rejected. The people cried out “Crucify Him!” “Crucify Him!”

Early in the morning after being flogged nearly to death he is forced to carry his own cross out of the city to the place of his death. Even his closest friends and family have forsaken him. The soldiers gather huge nails and a heavy hammer nailing him to the cross. Blow after blow brings anguish and pain. Yet he cries out for their forgiveness.

They hoist up the cross his symbol of torture and death. He must lift himself by his feet nailed to the post just to take a breath. There is no rest or peace. Amid it all his God turns his face from him as he bears the sin of humanity. Now truly alone he cries out to the heavens and takes his last breath.

Those who have followed him so faithfully are in dismay. Was this not the promised one who would establish his kingdom here on earth? Now what, what would they do? They assemble in their sorrow as they remember his work among them. How he gave them hope. As they mourn and wail a knock at the door a voice of panic? “He’s Alive!” “He’s Alive!” How can it be? You yourself helped take him to the tomb. There was no life in his body.

As you rush to see for yourself, suddenly on the road there he is standing before you. He’s Alive! Now everything he has taught you makes sense. He truly is the Son of God come to save the world from its sin.

A message of hope and triumph only to the ears that get to hear it. Much more than what has been penned here. Jesus Christ has delivered so many from the mire and decay of life. But once again only to those who have heard. The junkie seeking rescue. The alcoholic unable to deal with life any longer without a bottle. The sex addict that seeks true love from every embrace unable to find it.

Jesus is the answer. He will come to their rescue. He will give them a stable life. He will fill their lives with a love that is everlasting. He came that none should perish. He is their SALVATION and HOPE! But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? Romans 10:14