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Full force fall
'God put his love on the line for us by offering his son in sacrificial death...' Romans 5:8
'Malpractice' is one of those words hunky doctors in Holby say to give the impression they've as much brain as brawn; but what is it? Imagine your ear has been torn off by a psychotic squirrel, and the doctor 'fixes' it with a stapler from his stationery drawer, and tells you to take a little whisky for the pain. That's malpractice. He isn't dealing with your problem appropriately. We can all be our own worst doctors with our sin.
We bandage over our dirty dealings, plaster over our mess and expect that we're OK with God because really, deep down we're good people. The heart of us needs desperate attention to undo all our spiritual malpractice.
When you confess your sin to God, it's like admitting you're sick and that you want the medicine that will save you. Jesus takes our sin to the cross and save us from it. How?
There's a true story about a man and a parachute instructor. A man leapt from a plane into the outstretched arms of the sky, but his ripcord was faulty. His chute failed. He plummeted to the ground facing certain death. And yet he lived. How? Seconds from impact, his instructor somehow rolled his body over, taking the full force of the fall. By making himself a human crash-mat, the instructor died; but the man lived. At the cross Jesus took the full force of the fall.
written by Bob Gass
'God put his love on the line for us by offering his son in sacrificial death...' Romans 5:8
'Malpractice' is one of those words hunky doctors in Holby say to give the impression they've as much brain as brawn; but what is it? Imagine your ear has been torn off by a psychotic squirrel, and the doctor 'fixes' it with a stapler from his stationery drawer, and tells you to take a little whisky for the pain. That's malpractice. He isn't dealing with your problem appropriately. We can all be our own worst doctors with our sin.
We bandage over our dirty dealings, plaster over our mess and expect that we're OK with God because really, deep down we're good people. The heart of us needs desperate attention to undo all our spiritual malpractice.
When you confess your sin to God, it's like admitting you're sick and that you want the medicine that will save you. Jesus takes our sin to the cross and save us from it. How?
There's a true story about a man and a parachute instructor. A man leapt from a plane into the outstretched arms of the sky, but his ripcord was faulty. His chute failed. He plummeted to the ground facing certain death. And yet he lived. How? Seconds from impact, his instructor somehow rolled his body over, taking the full force of the fall. By making himself a human crash-mat, the instructor died; but the man lived. At the cross Jesus took the full force of the fall.
written by Bob Gass
