Have A Very Merry, Holly Jolly, Awesome STINK BUG Christmas!   Sunday, December 7, 2014

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Do you have stink bugs at your house?  The other night I think I flushed about 7 of them little critters in 3 hours.  Can't stand the things myself.  Nothing about them, be it smell, looks, or whatever is appealing to me.

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Let's pretend you had me over for dinner.  (I like steak if you'd rather make it a reality).  You were just ready to serve and saw a stink bug on your wall.  You dropped MY steak on the floor and ran to get a fly swatter.

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Let's also pretend I wanted to save the little guy.  I knew I couldn't just talk to it.  Waving my hands for it to fly away wouldn't work either.

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For our final pretending exercise, let's say I had the power to become a stink bug myself.  That's it!  If I could change into a stink bug, I could talk to it in stink bugg-ese and warn him.  I could even stay there and be swatted myself as it flew on to another house.

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Far fetched?  For me to do that, yes it is.  But here's what Jesus did...

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He became a human to take our punishment and take our place on the cross.  Just like there is nothing about a stink bug that makes me even want to save it, let alone love it, the Bible tells us that there is nothing within us or about us that makes us appealing to God.  Our righteousness, or good stuff is like filthy rags to Him...and yet He chooses to love us.

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I took the stink bugs death penalty.  Jesus took our death sentence on the cross and allowed God the Father to punish His own Son instead of us.

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I'd be a pretty dumb stink bug to refuse my gift of taking his place.  How dumb is it when we humans refuse God's gift of forgiveness and everlasting life.

Have you trusted Him as Savior?  Have you become His own child?  If not, why not do that now so you too can enjoy the truth that Jesus became one of us so that we could become one of His.

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ps  I still hate stink bugs