Yes, Jesus loves ME!

No one can ever take the place of another. You can be a place keeper, fill up some lonely minutes, or hours but when push comes to shove there will always be something about that other person you will miss, the way that person laughs or smiles, a special fragrance you associate with them, their favorite food, so many things that the list could go on for pages without end.

I used to wonder how a person could love more than one person, I took the song “When I fall in love it will be forever” quite seriously, but I realize that your heart can expand and take in another love, not to replace the first but to enrich your current place in life when death or some other life circumstance has happened.

Those were my thoughts this evening as I thought upon people who have come and gone from my life and from the lives of others around me, and then …

There was a time that the only atonement for sin was the shed blood of a lamb, a goat or other suitable animal. A priest offered up these blood sacrifices for themselves and for the people, until…

Romans 5: 9-11 Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we’re at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!

Now we know that there is someone who can completely take our place by taking on the robe of flesh and coming to earth to be born in a simple manger and then giving His own life’s blood for the atonement of our sin so that we can have eternal life.

Yeah, Jesus really loves me… and it will be forever, Merry Christmas!