Look at the title of this post again-"You're going to get it. I'm telling!"
When I was in third grade you heard that kind of stuff on the playground all the time, or was that just me?
My third grade teacher, Eldo Schnackenberg, (I know what a great German name, right!) took these "playground opportunities" as teachable moments. He explained to our class (me) that the word grace, which seemed so abstract and intangible to an eight year old, simply meant undeserved loved. I have a feeling Mr. Schnackenberg handed out a lot of grace. He taught third, fourth and fifth grade at the same time in the same classroom. Amazing Grace!
As we are in the midst of Holy week we see the true meaning of grace played out through Christ’s death on the cross. Jesus was true God and true man. He followed all the playground rules and yet it was him on the cross. He could have removed himself from the cross and told the rest of us, “You’re going to get it and I’m telling!" but that was not God’s plan of salvation. His plan was full of grace, his undeserved love. Because Christ took on our sins and died on the cross for us, we have new life, new hope, new joy, new energy to be his Easter People. I hope some of that comes across in this illustration.
Because of Jesus’s death on the cross, "You're going to get it, his undeserved love…. and I’m telling!"
Happy Easter!
Smiles,
Wendy