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I AM BARABBAS


With Easter close by, I decided to write about a lesson I learned last year from a sermon in church, this lesson touched me so much and I know it will live with me forever. I might not be able to say it in the exact words of my Pastor, but this was my take away.


I AM BARABBAS


It was a bad Friday for the disciples because their leader was killed.


Oh it was a bad Friday for Mary, the mother of Jesus to watch her son crucified on the cross…with so much pain…


It was a bad Friday for Jesus’s followers and friends, those he healed, saved, fed and taught. Am sure it was a bad Friday for those children that sat at Jesus’ feet to hear about the kingdom of God. “How could someone so good and innocent die this way?”….


But it was a good Friday for Barabbas, a prisoner and a murderer, because the people wanted him released, even the chief priest and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas instead of Jesus… And there was a switch, Jesus died and Barabbas was set free, Just as the crowd chose Barabbas to be free, God chose me to be free…


And there was a switch, Jesus died and I was set free, Indeed I am Barabbas and it is a good Friday for me.


The life that I now live is not mine, but Christ living through me, Patiently teaching me as I walk down the aisle to be more like him….

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