As I got out of the shower this morning I looked at myself in the mirror at my tattoos and scars I thought to myself and wondered about the sacrifices I have made in my life to get when I am today. One of my tattoos is the classic "praying hands" Im sure you all seen it or something like it on someone you know. I dont know if you all know the real story behind it but long ago there was a poor family and they had two sons.
The oldest brother had the talent to be a sculptor but the younger brother wanted to be a painter but the family could only send one brother to a school for sculpting or a school for painting. The decided to send older brother to sculpting school, the younger brother was heartbroken. The older brother seeing this decided to take the money and save it and send his younger brother to school. Without his family knowing, instead of going to school everyday the older brother instead got a job working the mines.
Years and years he worked his fingers to the bone saving up every bit of money he could till at last he had saved enough to send him brother to school. by that time the older brothers hands were so rough, and had been broken so many times working in the mines that he could never be a sculpture now. When people ask him why he did what he did he tells them that it was out of love for his brother than compelled him to do it. As a tribute to the love and sacrifice of his brother, the younger painted his very first painting of his brothers hands, frail, old, and broken.
Now your wondering whats the point of this story, well directly across from that tattoo is another one. its Jesus Christ on the cross. I know alot of us have questioned the will of God. I know I have. I know I shook my fist at the sky and and asked why thru tear soaked eyes. I know we all feel or felt that God forsakes us and dont love us or just dont give a damm bout what happens to us but if that were true Jesus would not have died on that cross that day. god so loved the world, THE WORLD for all its sinners, for all the ugliness and the things we do to ourselves and each other. he gave his only son to die for you, for us....no matter who you are, real, fake, lost and alone. Always remember that God loves you. He will never forsake you no matter what you've done, all you have to do is ask and he will forgive you. God's love is awesome....
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own,
is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails 1 Corinthians 13:4