A Lasting Tribute

A Lasting Tribute

"Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."  Romans 5:7-8

The story is told of a traveler who looked for unusual things in the cities he visited.  During a tour of a town one day, he was attracted by a remarkable spire over a public building.  Turning to see it better, he noticed, about two-thirds of the way up, a stone figure of a lamb on the wall.  The man stopped a passerby, to ask if there was some significance to the lamb's stone replica.  Told that it marked the place from where a workman lost his balance and fell while the building was under construction, the traveler inquired, "Was he killed?" "No" said the local resident, "it was a miracle".   When his friends hurried down, expecting to find the mangled body on the pavement, there he was, shaken and badly bruised, but with hardly a bone broken.  It happened that several lambs were on their way to slaughter, and as the mason fell, he landed on the back of one of them.  The lamb was killed, of course, but his soft body broke the mason's fall and saved his life.  The builder was so impressed with the miracle that he had a stone lamb placed there as a lasting tribute.
                                                                                                                                    -Robert E. Coleman

Do you remember where you were when Jesus rescued you?  When the Lamb of God saved you from the fall?  Not only did He die for us while we were still sinners,  He met us at the place where we were lost.  He found us...and then with the love only Jesus could have, paid the ultimate price for our salvation-death on a cross.  Like the builder in the story, we should be so impressed with that miracle that we live our lives as a lasting tribute for all the world to see.... running the race every day to glorify Him!!!

"When he saw Jesus passing by, he said "Look, the Lamb of God!""  John 1:36

Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your pure and spotless Lamb to die on a cross for us. While we were still sinners, You loved us enough to provide the miracle of salvation to us.  Thank you Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins through your sacrifice.  May we forever live our lives as a lasting tribute to you.  In your name we pray Jesus, Amen.  

Happy Running!!