Case Family in Hong Kong

Just reflecting a bit…..and this is what is on my mind (perhaps a bit deep, but worth sharing, I think):

As a mom, I see that I am completely flawed,….yet I strive to do everything for everyone…every bit of the time!  I just can’t do it, you know?…I don’t mean this to sound victim-ish…you’ll see what I mean as I continue, I think.  But there are days that I just continually blow it with my kids…I yell or I just about lose it…I am not as patient or kind as I need to be….I get bent out of shape over silly stuff…I just screw up.  There are those glorious days that I wonder who replaced me and my kids with angels–everything seems smooth, etc. until there comes a random ruffle, and then there we are again–imperfect people trying to live perfectly in our own strength—at least that’s where I find myself.

As I was just mulling the aforementioned bit over in my mind and heart, I realized that that is just how it is this side of heaven.  I was created by a perfect God who in turn demands perfection of his creatures.  But I screw up (nearly) every chance I get!  I am very far from perfect, very far from ‘good’.  And this is a very hopeless state, eh?  How precious the reality that Jesus Christ exists to be my perfection in light of my sin!!!  He covers me with his good, his perfection, with his blood.  (For those who read this and may have no background of Christ or Christianity, it may sound morbid that I speak of ‘Jesus’ blood’; however, imagine that you were completely without hope in this world and someone told you what you could do in order to find true hope……and that hope they said, could be found not in you or in anything you could do….but that someone else had to do something for you.  I’m sure you’d reply, “Well, who is this person?….and where can I find them to ask them to help me find this hope?..”  They’d go on to explain that hope is not free…but had to be purchased at the high cost of someone else’s life.  “Oh, you’d say…..that’s horrible…..many people have to pay such a high price?”  No.  Just one somone had to pay that price: Jesus. So, it is by his very blood that this Jesus buys us back for God.  So, it is indeed precious blood to those who believe. See Ephesians 2).

End of soapbox.  I am just very grateful that : “…at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly (read: all humanity).” (Romans 5:6)

M, for the Case family