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"He wrote the plan, knowing whatever pain and suffering it required He would do. And He'd have no regrets."

THERE IS NOT A PORTION of our life that the Savior does not share. When death entered the earth, He determined to take part in death. When sickness took hold, He set Himself to rid the earth of it, even if that required His own punishment. Whatever it took to save His beautiful creation, the man He’d made in His image, the woman He’d formed from man’s side, He would go to the utmost to experience it with them.

But He’d do it, only as He’d set out to do it. As He planned to do it, and not one jot or tittle would alter from the plan He’d formed. He formed the plan then joined the plan. He set Himself center of the plan, all of its facets and instruments spanning outward from Him. He wrote the plan, knowing whatever pain and suffering it required He would do. And He’d have no regrets.

No chance of failure. What He’d designed would happen as He’d drawn it, in the colors He’d painted, and from it would come what He’d set in place when He’d made His creation. This would be His design, His ministry, His footsteps. His victory. Whatever the cost, and He knew the cost, the rescue was His, with His signature, with His voice echoing across the ages, toward a cross and cry, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.”

And an earthquake and the sun gone dark. His arm not twisted to perform it. No reluctance in His actions, all the agony on His shoulders, but not just the agony, the shouts of heaven when His body, then dead, raised to life again. He saw the battle in front of Him. He focused on the joy. And such joy, such joy, the greatest elation to have His beautiful people back in His hand.

Back where He’d planned. In His palms where the holes show He became Man.

“And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” (Mark 16:20)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
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