Your Life-Threatening Disease

Your child is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. After all the emotional upheaval, you go to a specialist. You discuss treatment options. You try one. Then another. More doctors too. Prayer chains are activated. You google and research and study. Drain every financial resource. You begin fundraisers. You do anything and everything. Whatever the cost. This precious life must be saved from the jaws of death! Some would even pray to trade places. “Take me instead!” You’ll do anything. Pay any price…

And so it is with your Father in heaven. You, His precious child, are found filled with a deadly disease – sin. And God would, just like you, do anything to save you so you could be with Him forever. He knew the steep price. Blood. Death. So He came down Himself, God in the flesh, and paid it. Paid it all. “Take Me instead,” could have easily been Jesus’ last words. You (insert your name) are that precious in His sight.

So no more guilt and shame about this. You wouldn’t want your child feeling like that because you exhausted your savings, retirement fund, sold house and home – everything – to ensure recovery and restored life. Now is the time for rejoicing: eternal life is purchased and promised!  Absolute and all-encompassing forgiveness, release, freedom has been granted. God saw His precious child in life-threatening danger and out of His great love just had to do something!

Thank You, Father God, for the ultimate, perfect, complete rescue from the eternal doom of a sinful life. Thank You for washing the disease of sin all away. Thank You for preparing a place for us where sin, death and the devil are no more. In our great Savior’s Name, Amen.