MInTheGap

It’s interesting, around this time of year, to have the conversation be
about a person’s life, death, and what it means to be a person.  Given
this is the time of year that we remember what Jesus did on the cross,
there are some interesting things to think about:

In a time where we are debating what life is and what life means, it’s
instructive to remember what the estimation of Jesus was.  Having been
placed on a cross, He was considered less than human.  Isaiah 53 states
that the estimation of the people that saw Him was that He was being
afflicted by God.  His image was to be so disconfigured that people
would not think of Him as human.

Jesus was innocent of all
wrong doing, placed on the cross because of the sin of the others.  And
if this was not enough, the very people he was dying to save were the
ones that place Him there and ridiculed Him.  The very ones He loved
placed Him there.

But the greatest thing is that He rose from
the dead– giving us the hope of Easter.  Paul contends that since
Christ is risen, our faith is not in vain.  We can truly expect to live
because He did.

The fate, however, that is worse than death
is dying without having believed on Him.  Terri can die– as we all
will barring the return of Christ– and it will not be the end for
her.  She may have trusted Christ for her salvation, in which case she
will be much better off.  She may not know Christ, and in that case,
she will be far worse off than starving to death.

Michael
will be judged by Almighty God for what he has done with/to his wife. 
Earthly courts may get it wrong, but the Heavenly one will not.

Let’s, as Christians, stop seeing the world as the final arbitor of
morality, and look to the Divine justice, realizing that regardless of
Terri’s spiritual state and regardless whether she lives or dies today,
this week, or years from now, that those that had an opportunity to do
something (including Michael,  the parents, the judges, the govenor,
and you and I) will be judged for how they responded to what was going
on.

We also need to make sure that we are right with God and
in His will.  For just as nothing can take us out of the hand of the
Father, we can also be sure that we cannot get there because of any
amount of good deeds we do here on Earth.

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