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The other night we watched the movie John Q.  This is the story of a family that is having a rough time financially and then the son needs to have a heart transplant.  The story is about what a father will do to save his son.  Spoiler Alert:  "We all know how this works, people.  In order for Mike to live, someone has to die.  I'm the father.  It might as well be me."  So you have a father that will do anything, anything for his son.  Even if that means he must die to give his heart to his son.

As I thought about this story and how it so easily paints the story of what God did for us, I was amazed at the beauty of it all.  I mean, the story of a father who will kill himself so that his son can live is beautiful.  The depth of love a parent has for a child is heart wrenching.  How can a person love someone so much that they are willing to die for that other person?  And yet that is what so many parents feel when it comes to their child.  And that is exactly what God  has done for us.  He loves us as much as a parent loves their child.  He loves us so much that he gave his life so that we would be able to live.  Amazing!

In the movie when the father is saying good-bye to his son I was wondering what the son would think later in life when he thought about his father.  Would he be mad that his father died for him?  Would he regret that his father died for him?  Or would he be so extremely thankful and overwhelmed at the love his father showed him?  Would he feel the value that his dad had of him?  I would like to think that he would try to live his life the way his dad wanted him to live.  All the last minute advice his dad gave would hopefully be taken to heart.  He would see the value in himself that his dad saw in him.

Jesus also gave some last instructions of how we should live our lives.  Basically it is to live good lives.  After we have the new heart we have a part of our father in us.  We, in a way, represent our father.  Every day we can be thankful for the sacrifice our father made for us.  In order for us to live, someone had to die.

Go watch the movie!

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