The Parsonal Computer

No Greater Love

German composer Felix Mendelssohn’s grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, was not a handsome man. In addition to his short stature, he also had a hunched back. When he met a young lady named Frumtje, Moses fell madly in love, but Frumtje was repulsed by his appearance.
Finally getting the courage to talk to her, Moses asked, “Do you believe marriages are made in heaven?”
When she said yes, Moses said, “In heaven at the birth of each boy, the Lord announces which girl he will marry. When I was born, my future bride was pointed out to me. Then the Lord said, ‘But your wife will be humpbacked.’ Right then and there I called out, ‘Oh Lord, a humpbacked woman would be a tragedy. Please, Lord, give me the hump and let her be beautiful.’”
Frumtje reached out and gave Mendelssohn her hand, and later became his devoted wife.

When Jesus carried the cross to Calvary, He carried the sins of all of us on His back. He did this because God knew that for us to carry our own sins would be a tragedy. God loves us so that he could not bear the thought of this so He sent His Son to take our sins away from us and put them on Himself. There can be no greater love than this. Let us devote our lives to the One who took our sin, our pain, and our suffering and put it on Himself.

“How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 (The Message)