Only the Best
Tonight as I was feeding my littlest miss and cutting up her broccoli, I paused to consider what I was doing. I think most probably prefer the broccoli flower over the stem, though for me it goes beyond preference. I love broccoli, but I don’t want to eat broccoli stems and it’s crazy annoying to open a bag of broccoli only to see that half the bag is stems. I willingly pay more to avoid this disappointment. Yet, as I was cutting up broccoli for the miss, I was giving her all the flower and eating the stems myself. It’s what I always do. Sure it’s a trivial act of sacrifice, but it reminded me of the true sacrifices we make as parents, as we model our Heavenly Father and the ultimate sacrifice he made through his son Jesus. Little miss didn’t do anything to earn the best of our broccoli, yet out of love I give up the best for her; just as we’ve never done anything to deserve God’s best, though he sacrificed willingly with love and compassion to give us the ultimate gift of Grace, and because of that gift, despite our failings, despite our rebellion, despite ourselves even, we are still loved and counted as righteous.
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Roman 5:20-21 ESV
One Comment
Carolyn Westfall
So true! Parents just do it without thinking… sacrifice… just as God sacrificed His Son, Jesus. Thanks for sharing.