Two Funerals

Lake Michigan
(photo by my Rebecca)

"[Jesus] Himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins - and not only our sins but the sins of all the world." (1 John 2:2)

        Yesterday, my Phillip and I attended the service for the 34-year-old son of our dear friends, and later this week, we'll speak at our nephew's funeral.

Two

Sailed away to distant shores

To live with God forevermore.

Neither lived a perfect life,

Both reached God through Jesus Christ.

"Behold [Jesus], the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!" (John 1:29)

"Come now - let us reason together," says the Lord. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isa. 1:18)

         No one, no not one, has ever nor will we ever live a perfect life; but the perfect sacrifice of Jesus satisfied the wrath of God. The only way to God is through Christ. 

Have you come to God through Jesus Christ?

"You...He has made alive, wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us. He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." (Col. 2:13-14)