Jesus Takes Your Pain

Thursday Matters- February 25, 2021
Everyday Jesus Did It

​How do you know when you’ve given enough to get to God?  You don’t. Yet many people believe that there are many roads to God and that true spirituality is just to love your neighbor and help the poor. What about the people that have been taught to hate? Are the poor just virtuous? That sounds right, but it is not what Jesus said.  

Jesus said you cannot earn salvation by taking the executioner's cross yourself.  We instinctively know this.  If a soldier drapes his body over a grenade to save his friends, we recognize it as a sacrifice.  Something we honor, but not something we can pay him back for.  In fact, to suggest we could pay Him back is an insult to His sacrifice.  The same is true with Jesus.  He loves us for who we are and not for what we do.  The good things we do, like soup kitchens for the poor, are out of our love for Him but no matter what He loves right where we’re at by His grace…everyday.