Posts by Lucas Bitter

If you have ever suffered from deep sadness… if you have ever suffered from crippling anxiety… if your soul has ever been overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death… you have a Savior who sits beside you in that suffering. Jesus knows how these things feel.

2,000 years after God dramatically provided a ram to take Isaac’s place on the altar, he just as dramatically provided the Lamb of God to take our place upon the cross! And in so doing God saved not only our lives, but also the lives of our children and their children and everyone else in the world who believes in him.

God’s love is the greatest gift he has ever given to us. And understanding God’s love is the key to understanding everything else about him… including why he looked so weak on the cross. He was taking our sin to give us his holiness. He was taking our weakness to give us his strength. He was taking our death to give us his life.

Jesus took the hardest thing in this world – the problem of suffering – and turned it into the very means by which he saved us! Jesus will take the scariest thing in this world – the day of our death – and turn it into the gateway to eternal life! What a powerful God we have…