08.15.06
Our Story
by Greg England
A Welch shepherd was presented with an orphaned lamb. Unable to find a nursing ewe to accept the lamb, he took it under his care … waiting for just the right moment / event. Within a few days that moment came. A dead lamb was found and the shepherd immediately skinned it and placed the skin of the dead lamb over the orphan. He took the orphan to the mother of the dead lamb, who sniffed it a couple of times and immediately accepted it and began nursing it.
That is our story. That’s justification. I, of myself and in myself, cannot be accepted by God, so Jesus - the Lamb of God - died for me and I am clothed with him. Accepted by God no less than if I were Jesus himself. Now if that doesn’t make your day … what can?
Dee O'Neil Andrews said,
August 15, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Thanks, Greg - For “Our Story” in all of it’s poignant meanings and for joining us as a contributer here at Grace Notes. May I remind all of the rest of you contributors to start seeing the Grace Notes in your life day to day and share them here with us all. And to all of you others who stop by from day to day, email me or any of us you have email addresses for and share your grace note stories with us so we can post them here. I KNOW there are a lot of good people out there who do very good things for us all day to day. So let’s commend them as God commended Enoch for the way he lived on this earth.