What if.......

"If I make my bed in hell,

even there,

You Are With Me."

-Psalm 139:8

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What if

God So Loved,

So Much so,

That He could not bear

To see His beloved suffer death's agonies alone

To stand by while we endured

the soul carving crucifixions

to which we are

so often subjected

in this fallen world...

felled by our own hands...

He begged us choose life

we chose death,

He offered Deity

We chose the Deceiver,

He gave us a Garden

We chose Gethsemane...

He could've turned away, as a lesser god would,

He could've abandoned us to the crucifying consequences,

Dismissed us out of Hand forever...

But Instead,

Instead,

He laid open His Hands

to the pounding of nails,

Laid open His faithful heart

to the risk of further rejection

He traded His throne for thorns,

His comfort for a cross,

He laid aside Heaven

and stepped into our hell...

Determined if that's where we decided to make our bed

He would lie down,

even there,

with us...

We quote, by rote,

the too familiar words,

"If we are joined in His death,

we shall also partake of His life..."

Forgetting,

I think,

that it is not we,

in some show of self-righteous piety,

who join Him,

Rather it was He,

in a show of unfathomable Passion,

Who joined us...

Who joins us still...

 Whose joining rejoins us 

to Heaven

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"  For if we are one with Him [permanently united] in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be [one with Him and share fully] in the likeness of His resurrection."

-Romans 6:5