There was a certain “eerie” feeling when I stood at the
Memorial of 9/11 last year. It may be thinking about all those souls going into
eternity. Many of them not expecting planes to be crashed into a building or trapped in the burning/falling
buildings.
I heard a good message how Jesus took being “blind-sided.” They put a hood over Jesus head and they mocked and punched Jesus in the face and said, “Prophesy and tell us who hit you.”
9/11 was being blind-sided.
It's like when a quarterback on a football team does not see a hit coming from behind him, and then he gets the wind knocked out of him. It is a worse blow physically and mentally because it's not anticipated. My brother played football tight end at Pike High School, and the last game he got the wind knocked out. A recruiter came at his college at Indiana State, but he would not play again.
My sister loved horses, she road all her life and I road many times with her. She married a man who owned a horse for a while, but when she got thrown from a horse, she never rode again.
I was blind-sided in life when I lost my husband. That sudden death knocked the wind out of me. A tornado or a sudden tragedy leaves one with a sense of "shell shock."
Finding my identification with Christ is understanding that he bore this so I can have peace in life.
I heard the testimony of a man who saw the Passion of Christ movie and their child who is a toddler accidentally drowned in the bathtub. He could not get his son breathing again. They called 911 and he claimed, “The chastisement of my peace was laid on Jesus.” Jesus has been made unto us peace." The paramedics arrived and they got the child breathing and he was okay.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5
A victorious life is not through our will power or through our own strength, but the victory is through the strength and resurrection power of Jesus.
I want to know Christ--yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Philip 3:10
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. 15:57
I heard a good message how Jesus took being “blind-sided.” They put a hood over Jesus head and they mocked and punched Jesus in the face and said, “Prophesy and tell us who hit you.”
9/11 was being blind-sided.
It's like when a quarterback on a football team does not see a hit coming from behind him, and then he gets the wind knocked out of him. It is a worse blow physically and mentally because it's not anticipated. My brother played football tight end at Pike High School, and the last game he got the wind knocked out. A recruiter came at his college at Indiana State, but he would not play again.
My sister loved horses, she road all her life and I road many times with her. She married a man who owned a horse for a while, but when she got thrown from a horse, she never rode again.
I was blind-sided in life when I lost my husband. That sudden death knocked the wind out of me. A tornado or a sudden tragedy leaves one with a sense of "shell shock."
Finding my identification with Christ is understanding that he bore this so I can have peace in life.
I heard the testimony of a man who saw the Passion of Christ movie and their child who is a toddler accidentally drowned in the bathtub. He could not get his son breathing again. They called 911 and he claimed, “The chastisement of my peace was laid on Jesus.” Jesus has been made unto us peace." The paramedics arrived and they got the child breathing and he was okay.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5
A victorious life is not through our will power or through our own strength, but the victory is through the strength and resurrection power of Jesus.
I want to know Christ--yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Philip 3:10
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. 15:57
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