My Jesus Is Broken

He was being handled by those who didn't know...He fell and He broke!  What to do?!
Does He go back broken to where He had been before? My Father picked Him up in His large calloused, but gentle hands.."I will fix Him.  I will take Him home,  fix Him and bring Him back good as new!"
Then comes the waiting...looking at the spot where He should be.  Not sure if He would be coming back.
BUT TODAY my Father brought my Jesus back!!

This is a true story!  I have a Easter figure set...and the children like to hold Jesus!  But the figure was inadvertently dropped and broke.  My dad (and Mom) rush to the rescue and say they will take it home to repair it!  Because that is what parents do...no matter how old we are!
And 2 weeks later, on Easter Sunday my dad brought Jesus home!

Another true story!
Our Jesus was being "handled" by people who didn't know....they did not realize who He was!

He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Isiah 53:3

And in their ignorance they rejected Him.  Falsely accused Him, sentenced Him and executed Him.

His crime...  "King of the Jews"  was what they wrote.  

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,    and by his wounds we are healed. Isiah 53:5

They broke Him. They beat Him, spat at Him before He was hung on that cross to die.

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,  and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.  After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.  Matthew 27:28-31

Just as there were many who were appalled at him—
    his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being    and his form marred beyond human likeness— Isaiah h 52:14

He was taken down and put in a borrowed tomb. 

Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,  and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Matthew 27:59-60

And they waited, scared, uncertain what was next.  

BUT the Father, on the third day....knowing the greater plan all along, wakes Jesus from the dead!

 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”  Luke 24:7

This is what we celebrate Easter Sunday!

Our Father took Jesus home, fixed Him and then brought Him back to us!!!  And scripture says He is coming back again!

"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.  Matthew 24:30-31

Isn't it wonderful!  Our Jesus didn't stay " broken"!  He was raised from the dead...so that we don't have to stay broken!!
If we believe in who Christ is and what He has done for us God will fix our brokenness and restore us!!! Amen!!

Last year I posted a song...which is my Easter anthem....here it is that post again for any who would like to see it.

He's Alive!!