She Amazes me

As I was reading through my younger sister's blog, I was truly amazed by what she shared. She blew me away with her words. Always had and always will.


She wrote this piece, "Believe" and I was speechless by the time I was reading halfway through it. I can truly see how my sister's life has been transformed.

"Believe!"

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - by C. S. Lewis

This speaks exactly what is in my heart and what I once read from a max lucado book.

let me see if I can find the passage. ah, here's one.
Not the one I remember, but one alright.

Matt 28:1-6:
Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to see the tomb. Suddenly, there was a great earthquake, because an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled aside the stone and sat on it. His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. The guards shook with fear when they saw him and they fell into a dead faint. "Don't be afraid!...I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying."


Such words mess with you. They cause you either to leave or to hop on. Be they false, the body of Jesus lay a-moldering in a borrowed grave. Be they false, then we have no good news. An occupied tomb on Sunday takes the good out of Good Friday.


Be they true however-if the rock is rolled and the Lord is living-then pull out the fiddle and don your dancing shoes. Heaven unplugged the grave's power chord, and you and I have nothing to fear. Death is disabled. Get on board!

Can we trust the proclamation? The invitation of the angel is "come and see..."

The empty tomb never resists honest investigation. Following Christ demands faith, but not blind faith. Shall we come and see? Take a look at the vacated tomb. Did you know that the opponents of Christ never challenged its vacancy? No pharisee or roman soldier ever led a contingent back to the burial site and declared, "The angel was wrong. The body is here. It was all a rumor."

They would have if they could have. Within weeks, disciples occupied every Jerusalem street corner, announcing a risen Christ. What quicker way for the enemies of the church to shut them up than to produce a cold and lifeless body? Display the body, and Christianity is stillborn. But they had none to display.

Helps explain the Jerusalem revival. When the apostles argued for the empty tomb, the people looked to the pharisees for a rebuttal. But they had none to give. As A.M.Fairbairn put it long ago, "the silence of the Jews is as eloquent as the speech of Christians!"

The other passage I remember has the message along the lines of the quote. Jesus proclaims to be the Son of God, God himself. That He is "the way, the life, and the truth. No one (goes) to the Father except through (Him)"- John 14:6. Jesus didn't give us three choices. He gave us only two- Believe in Him or not. Accept His gift of salvation on reject it.

It may seem harsh, but if you think about it, if you don't accept a gift given to you, you are actually rejecting it aren't you? You can't poosibly say," I acknowledge the gift, but I'm just going to leave it there and that's it." Even if you say"it's okay, I appreciate it..."Returning the gift is as good as rejecting it right?

There is no middle ground with God. And in fact, there shouldn't be. Would you want a God who doesn't really care if you accept him or ignore him? I know I wouldn't. A living God who truly loves us will be able and willing to reach out to us in His way. When He has done everything for us, and the truth is looking at us right in our face, we can choose to accept it or reject it. It's our choice.Maybe it's time now to step out of our comfort zones and seek the truth for ourselves, and to accept it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.- by C. S. Lewis

Powerful message. Penned by my dear lovely and wonderful sister.