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A friend holds a package out to you. The paper covering it is stained and crumpled, but your friend assures you what's inside is beautiful and life changing. What would you do? Do you trust your friend and open the gift despite its package, or do you turn away in disgust and exclaim, "I don't care what you say: I'm not opening that ugly gift"?
It amazes us as believers that God would give us - the undeserving - a new life through the torment of his son on the cross. The fact that he would take something as ugly as crucifixion and make it beautiful causes us to wonder.
And even more wondrous, God does the same with us. He takes our ugly - sin stained lives and regenerates them with the purity of his Holy Spirit. He offers us a life-changing package that could be wrapped only one way: the blood of Christ. Only by opening this gift will we receive new life from Christ. Have a great day.
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