Upon grateful reflection, we can look back and see how big mama, pawpaw, mama and daddy, god-mama and auntie, made many great sacrifices for us. Many sacrificed having their own comforts to ensure that we not only had the basic necessities of life as children, but to ensure that we had an opportunity to be involved in school activities and other extracurricular activities that could take a bite out of the monthly budget.<\/p>\n
If truth be told, mama and big mama may still be making great sacrifices for us even into our adulthood. Many, have made, and are still making great contributions to the coffer as we raise our own children. Many are putting aside their own vacations to help with down payments on the purchases of new homes or cars for loved ones. Correspondingly, many are making room for adult children and grandchildren, who need a place to live.<\/p>\n
Contrariwise, many adult children are finding themselves in the role of caretaker as they face the daily challenges of tending to adult parents who can no longer fend for themselves possibly due to financial struggles, sickness, and disease. Yes, I would submit to you that great sacrifices have been made as many have expressed their love and compassion to ensure a better quality of life for those in need.<\/p>\n
However great the sacrifice of missionary, preacher, daddy, mama, big mama, big papa, auntie, or even you and I, there is no better sacrifice than Jesus Christ, our blessed Messiah<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Bible says \u201c11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.\u00a0\u00a0 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.\u201d<\/em> (Hebrews 10:11-12).<\/p>\n The sacrifices of men are temporal at best. Jesus, that great High Priest, and Who is now sitting at the right hand of Yahweh God, paid the ultimate sacrifice when He died on the old rugged cross so that we may experience everlasting life with Him. Of a truth, Jesus came that we may have life and that life more abundantly (John 10:10b).<\/p>\n No more, the blood of bulls and goats by the priests in the Old Testament to sacrifice for themselves and for mankind at the altar. Under a new and a better covenant (New Testament) Jesus Christ, the sinless Lamb, sacrificed Himself, by shedding His powerful and cleansing blood<\/u><\/strong> and is now interceding for us from Heavens\u2019 throne room (the Golden Altar)\u2014for all who call on Him. That\u2019s good news, my friends!<\/p>\n May we Pray<\/p>\n Papa God, we thank You that even though Adam didn\u2019t get it quite right; you have given us a second Adam in the person of Your darling Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Who redeemed us from a life of no return so that we can spend eternity with You. We thank You that surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in Your house forever and forever in Jesus mighty name, Amen and Amen.<\/p>\n If you do not know Jesus as your Savior, and you want to accept Him now, you can click on the link under PRAYER<\/strong>, and pray the prayer of Salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upon grateful reflection, we can look back and see how big mama, pawpaw, mama and daddy, god-mama and auntie, made many great sacrifices for us. Many sacrificed having their own comforts to ensure that we not only had the basic necessities of life as children, but to ensure that we had an opportunity to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[102,103,100,101,105,104],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marvelousworks.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}