THE VERY FIRST FATHERS DAY

The theme of the Book of Revelation is one of rewards for those that believe in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, and the Son of God. That reward is to go home to Heaven

Have you ever given any thought about the sacrificial love that GOD the Father showed each of us by sending His Only SON JESUS to die on that Cross in place of me and you, the ones who caused HIS PAIN.

In many of my stories I imagine God speaking directly to me.

“My child God said to me. I wanted to tell you personally what the Crucifixion of My Son meant to me.

You have children and grandchildren and I know you love them. I know that you would do all you could to protect them from harm and that you would gladly take upon yourself their death. I know this because you were created in my image with the ability to Love.

I know that if men took your child and beat him with whips that ripped both flesh and bone from his back…that you could not be restrained.

I know if men forced your child to carry a beam of heavy wood down the street as people swore at him, mocking him, and spitting on him… that you could not be restrained.

I know if men forced your child to lie down on that cross and then drove nails through his feet and hands to hold him there…that you could not be restrained.

Could you Ernie?  The Lord asked softly…no Lord I said quietly.

I stood and watched as they did all those things to my Son. I stood there not for His sake but for yours, because He took that punishment not for His sake but for yours.I honored you through His Pain. But Ernie, when Jesus…MY SON cried out …MY GOD…MY GOD…WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?

That was more than I could bear, so I turned away and cried uncontrollably. My Son had wept over Jerusalem; and now I wept over my Son. Yes, I could not look upon the Worlds Sins that MY Son was bearing, but even more than that, if I had looked at HIM at the moment HE said those words…I knew in my heart

 That I could not be restrained!

Ernie…I wanted you and those that say they love my Son, to know that even for the Joy set before both HIM and I…the Cross was the most difficult thing either of us have gone through.”

Remembering My Daddy

Armin, my Daddy lost his wife and two children in the Holocaust. Teddy, a boy, was nine years old and had deep chocolate eyes. Lillian, a girl, was eleven years old with eyes the color of the sky and hair like wheat in the sunlight.
Prior to immigrating, Jews who lost homes were allowed to go back to the cities where they had lived and reclaim their homes should they want to. Most found nothing left to come home too and so they immigrated all over the world.

In the case of my Daddy the people occupying his home allowed him to go into the backyard and dig up a box that he had hidden in the earth. A box filled with treasures, jewelry, and money. These things had no value to him…but the pictures…OH Dear God, the pictures…the images of love and life lost; he gently held close to his heart and brought them with him.

My Daddy had walked his own “Via Delarosa”; his road of suffering. At its end he found only misty memories of the past. Daddy had lived through hell on earth just to be able to touch the hands of his children and hold his wife once again.

But they …were no more.

Daddy’s hands shook and all the pent up silent cries of anguish came out in great sobs and tears as he held 3 pictures of 3 hearts gently against his breast…Teddy, Lillian, his children and the only remaining picture of his wife as they stood bride and groom together looking forward to a bright future.

And so Daddy walked forward into a new life clutching the old life…crying out to God…WHY?…but only hearing the sound of silence. Daddy never understood to his dying day that it was satan who robbed him…not God.

All through the Old Testament God makes it clear that He knows everything about us:
• The number of hairs on our heads
• He knew us before we were conceived
• He chose us when He planned creation
• He determined the exact time of our birth
• The days of our lives are written in His book
• Every good gift comes from His hand
• He loves us with an everlasting love
• His thoughts about us are more than the sand of the seashore
• He rejoices over us by singing

Didn’t my Daddy know and understand this?
The answer is yes and no. It is Gods wish / desire that all should be saved. But desire is not will. God left that decision to our wills by giving us free will. Hidden in the prophecies of the Old Testament is this message from God to both Jew and Gentile.

I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus. For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed. He is the exact representation of my being. He came to demonstrate that I am for you not against you and to tell you that I am not counting your sins.

My Son died so that you and I could be reconciled. His death on the Cross-was the ultimate expression of my love for you. I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love.

Receive my son as your savior and nothing will ever separate you from my love again…and then you can come home to me.

Love,
Your Abba / Daddy,

ALL MIGHTY GOD

Father’s Day Prayer

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From the Heart of A Born Again Father

I Want My Family to Know: The day will come when like my father before me I will no longer be here. I have left a legacy of words and memories that speak to who I am and what I believe. To know me is to read my words that come from my heart on crosseseverywhere.com

I WANT THEM TO KNOW: That I love them, pray for them and will wait for them in a better place. I want them to know that I placed my eternal life in the nail scarred hands of Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, the Son of the Living God.

I WANT THEM TO KNOW: That I have not found a religion of men, but a personal relationship with The Son of God. I want them to know that as long as they have life they have the ability to Seek the Living God who waits at the top of the stairs for them with a welcome matt before the door of His Heaven.

All they need to do is open the door of their hearts and He will open the door to them so they can go into the ARK of refuge found ONLY in HIS Auto-Biography called the Old & New Testaments. There they will find the Living Words of God, written personally to each of them.

I WANT THEM TO KNOW: Only by reading His Words will they come to the knowledge of the Truth about God. Then they will Fear HIM. That fear will become knowledge of HIM, and that will lead to the understanding of what this life truly is about and why they were born…then they will Love The Lord with all their hearts.

I WANT THEIR HEARTS TO BREAK: So they will Repent before a Loving God who waits to heal them of their sins if they accept the Death of Jesus on the Cross for their sins.

THEN THEY WILL: Know the TRUTH about GOD and Themselves and then Love God and live for God and grow in wisdom and discernment of God….and SERVE GOD.

THEN GOD WILL: Make Good on HIS PROMISE to me and Give those I Love, that Love HIM 1st, ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.

AMEN