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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Worth Every Prayer

Troubling headlines this morning

rouse cries to God for His protection and direction

for innocent victims of war!

Psalm 90:14

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

1 Cor.10:31

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,

do it all for the glory of God.

Job 19:25

I know that my redeemer lives,

and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

While we pray for peace we also know what Jesus said,

Matt.24:4-8

Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.

5For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.

These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

8All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Behold Our God

The soul’s prosperity no war can overthrow

God’s Word, a lamp unto our feet will never lose its glow

The goal we press toward beyond time’s troubled care

When at last we behold our Lord, will be worth every prayer

In God’s decree not man's, we ought to fix our trust

How fleeting is the mist that spans the gap twixt dust-to-dust

The peace that this world gives is volatile indeed

To know that our Redeemer lives provides the hope we need

Life’s little leap of faith vexes dreamer’s designs

Where circumstance is like a lathe that chisels and refines

Desires of the heart and treasures that we crave

Where mortal means cannot impart that which succeeds the grave

While tears and bloodshed flow, we groan beneath its lot

But evil cannot overthrow what Calvary has wrought

Then, though burdens abound, still we will not despair

For, just to see our Savior crowned will be worth every prayer

The Truth cannot be swayed; the sorrows of travail

Fulfill words Time cannot dissuade; prophecy will not fail

The goal we press toward, when faith its fruit will bear

And we behold our glorious Lord, will be worth every prayer

He hears the heartfelt plea of those who trust in Him

No cold and distant God is He whose mercies never dim

Whose faithful Word bestows comfort to creature care

Whose love transcends earth's curtain close and makes worth every prayer

Psalm 90:14

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Save Pray...

From those who mourn for loved ones called from this world to the next,

(So, so many)

to those who have lost or not found The Way in this world

(so, so many)

sorrow-storms roll, and what can we do

where no one can restore loved ones departed,

or force repentance,

or faith in God

or love for Him?!

Ah, yes. We can pray!

(for faith and love's increase in all of us)

It's been a little while since I shared

one of my most beloved hymns

Sweet Hour of Prayer

(lyrics in above link)

Sweet Hour of Prayer

What we can do nothing about (save pray) we ought to then

Rather than shake our fists and shout and berate fellowmen

Rather than fret and forget who (when we pray) hears us plead

The first thing that we ought to do is trust God with our need

Prayer is more than religious sport or platitude-regale

More than a sorry last resort, when all our efforts fail

Prayer is faith’s tender fellowship, as man to God confides

Where through His Word God will equip us for what life betides

Sweet hour of prayer, God meets us there; He comforts and sustains

He bids us leave our burdens where surrender rends dark chains

He stretches out His arms and draws us close; Love never fails

His whisper calms the storm that was, as ‘peace, be still’ prevails

What we can do nothing about (save pray) ah, pray we would

Rather than yield to dismal doubt while God works for our good

God, who is rich in mercy hears the humble heart’s request

And through our dialogue of tears, He works for our best

God, who is rich in mercy because of His great love for us

While we were dead in sin, He made us alive through Jesus

Thus, now no matter what we face His kindness can afford

Exceeding riches of His grace through Jesus Christ, our Lord

What we can do nothing about (save pray) where evil lurks

We ought to then; faith without prayer is like faith without works

With meek and contrite attitude, then pray and do not cease

Until hope's cup of gratitude flows over with God’s peace

The past two Sunday morning messages

were focused on one of my most beloved passages of Scripture;

Ephesians 2

Many are the times I whisper the sweet treasure of the beginning of verse 4:

But God, who is rich in mercy,

because of His great love with which He loved us,

5 even when we were dead in trespasses,

made us alive together with Christ

(by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up together,

and made us sit together

in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that in the ages to come He might show

the exceeding riches of His grace

in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A Teeny Prayer and Prayer Request (updated)

My niece is conscious and cognitively healthy! (mentioned here)

Praise God

She has a long road to recovery ahead but has youth on her side

and with that, the hopes of full recovery!

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

The above hymn is extremely near and dear right now

Friday, October 8, 2021

When Our Prayers Seem But In Vain...

How do we explain an Invisible God

with often seemingly invisible answers to prayer?

We can't.

We live by faith

How do we get faith?

By trusting Who we cannot see by believing His Word.

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

John 17:17

See Heb.10 && 11&12 for more encouragement in faith

Without faith it is impossible to please God

Heb.11:6

...consider Him (Jesus) who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,

lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

Heb.12:3

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,

for He who promised is faithful.

Heb.10:23

Under His Wings

When our prayers seem but in vain

In a world so full of pain

Trouble, terror, hunger, grief

Apathy and unbelief

When replies for which we plead

Do not seem to intercede

Dark the night and deep the vale

Where prayer sometimes seems to fail

When we groan, bereft of word

When reasoning’s best is blurred

When like waves that surge and beat

Rock-bound shores, our prayers repeat

God, still help us to believe

When we seem not to receive

When the faithless scorn and jeer

At prayers You seem not to hear

God, lest our faith grows cold

Call to mind those men of old

Examples of faith and love

This world was not worthy of

Help us suffer to obtain

Faith’s better and greater gain

Joining clouds of witnesses

Trusting in Your promises

Trusting, without present proof

Sanctify us with your Truth

Your Word is Truth, come what may

So, we pray and pray and pray

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;

hold not thy peace at my tears:

for I am a stranger with thee,

and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.

To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

There is a way that seems right to a man,

But its end is the way of death.

Prov.14:12

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Faithful is God or We Are Not Helpless. Hallelujah!

A guttural *helpless, heart-cry best describes my prayers this morning

for a world groaning in tribulation...

For Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia,

(just a sad few of the many countries in dire distress)

Earthquakes, floods and wildfires rage.

Terrorists torture and terrorize.

Sickness and sorrow burdens.

America and Canada grow ever colder to the

Faith these countries were founded on

boldly proud and blind to the reaping of godless sowing!

God is not mocked

*But we are not helpless!

Hallelujah.

Deuteronomy 4:7

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them

as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

Psalm 46:1-3 –

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way

and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

though its waters roar and foam

and the mountains quake with their surging."

Oh God, Our Help in Ages Past

The battleground that keeps us bound toward Reward’s indemnity

Is fraught with what we ought to do and snares set by the enemy

Soon evidence through recompense from seed of word and deed is shown

What was concealed will be revealed for by the fruit the tree is known

Oh Lord, increase Your peace in us as we trust, whether old or youth

Broad is the way where demons prey on those who stray from Steadfast Truth

Your Word is sure; all will endure who feast upon Thy Bread of Life

The pure in heart will not depart from You though evil’s ruse runs rife

Desire’s vice and sacrifice no one beholds in full but He

Who authors birth and instills worth to we, prone to depravity

Where we all prove who we most love by the testimony of choice

Oh God, forbid Your light is hid by its indisputable voice

This battleground of sight and sound confounds the intellectual

*But corruption cannot corrupt that which is Incorruptible

Faithful is God, no matter what the godless, blood-thirsty reply

Be of good cheer, He bends his ear to hear faith’s guttural heart-cry

*Line from a sermon recently

Another hope-filled Hymn

Behold Our God

Psalm 18:6-19 –

"In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help.

From His temple he heard my voice, and my cry to Him reached His ears.

Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked,

because He was angry.

Smoke went up from His nostrils, and devouring fire from His mouth;

glowing coals flamed forth from Him. He bowed the heavens and came down;

thick darkness was under His feet. He rode on a cherub and flew;

He came swiftly on the wings of the wind.

He made darkness His covering,

His canopy around Him, thick clouds dark with water.

Out of the brightness before Him hailstones and coals of fire broke through His clouds.

The Lord also thundered in the heavens,

and the Most High uttered His voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

And He sent out his arrows and scattered them;

he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.

Then the channels of the sea were seen,

and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke,

O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me,

for they were too mighty for me.

They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but the Lord was my support.

He brought me out into a broad place;

He rescued me, because He delighted in me."

Monday, May 17, 2021

The Eloquence of Groans...

Hear my cry, oh God...

God hears our hearts

No fluent art

of speech required where

He intercedes

and heeds the groaning pleas

we utter there

Sometimes we know not

how to pray

where reason cannot reach

when godless verdict

has its say

and horror stuns our speech

But, woe to pride

The One who died

to pay sin’s debt we owed

makes no mistake;

Forbid we shake

a fist at loving God

…who hears our hearts;

Mercy imparts

A kind and listening ear

when our prayer

is but a groan

embodied in a tear

Rom.8;26

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:

for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:

but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us

with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Those Tears We Pray...

No eloquent words shape this week's prayers,

only tears.

SO many hurts and needs of

sickness and sorrow, broken relationships

in this old world

but God, so much More You!

Oh, God,

Hear our tears.

Be with those who have lost loved ones.

Be with those who stand by (outside hospital doors!!!)

while their suffering loved ones are admitted!

Oh, God, minister to the suffering

in ways known only to You!

Turning to this old Hymn today...

God Moves in a Mysterious Way-William Cowper

Those tears we pray,

They wing their way

From sorrow’s clay to God

When words won’t shape

The want and ache

That rends the speechless clod

He hears the heart

The sting and smart

Of sorrow’s sob and plea

And bears us up

…cradles the cup

That mirrors Calvary

Psalm 53:8

You number my wanderings;

Put my tears into Your bottle;

Are they not in Your book?

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help;

do not be deaf to my weeping.

For I am a foreigner dwelling with You,

a stranger like all my fathers.

Monday, March 29, 2021

Divine Design (updated)

.(here is the update mentioned this morning)

Last night my nephew's 19 mo. old son went missing

on their farm.

His body was recovered today in a manure pump.

Please pray for strength and comfort

for my brother Stuart and their family and

esp. for my nephew and his wife, Charles and Andrea!

I will say of the LORD,

“He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

Psalm 91:2

Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield,

and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 94:22

But the LORD has been my stronghold,

and my God is my rock of refuge.

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

No matter what designs the must of trials we pass through

In Thee oh, Lord we place our trust; our refuge is in You

With gaping wounds of heart and soul, beneath the blows of loss

We plead for faith to make us whole by looking at the cross

For when life’s cup of joy is marred by sorrow’s agony

You reach with Hands redemption-scarred; our refuge is in Thee

The places that once brimmed with love and laughter’s harmony

Are full of tears, our visage dimmed with groaning sympathy

To Thee oh, Lord we pour our prayer; when understanding fails

Help us to place our burden where Your faithfulness prevails

To lean upon your promises for they are kind and true

No matter what designs the test, our refuge is in You

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Each New Day...Pray!!

So maybe you don't have time for this whole video below?

Even the first four or esp. the last four minutes are Wonder-Power-full

and will likely pique your desire to listen to the rest😊

True Prayer, True Power-Charles Spurgeon

We must believe prayer to be what it is

or else it is not what it should be~

Charles Spurgeon

Each new day is like a wagon laden with want, wish and need

Trundling from the arc of heaven to the bark of word and deed

Each new day wayfarers waken to a Hand outstretched to pour

His new mercy not yet taken to we, pounding on Want’s Door

Each new day demands Full Armour where distraction’s lure is tossed

Where like modern day Gomorrah and Sodom, virtue seems lost

Each new day is weighed with reason to bow before Holiness

Lord, let not vain repetition mock you with rote emptiness

Each new day groans with important, earnest opportunity

More of faith and more of love and more of true humility

Each new day our faith has access to more than compulsion’s curse

We have access to the greatest power in the universe

Each new day, prayer is the chariot to the promises of He

Who, compelled by His own promise breathes through man, divine decree

Each new day, without exception, we may kneel before the One

Who ordained sinner’s redemption through the shed blood of His Son

Each new day, pray righteous pleasure mingles with each earnest plea

As the treasure of faith’s measure echoes through eternity

Each new day, though we may not bear witness to His full reply

Pray, lest we deny the power that no other can supply

Each new day pray; as hope’s Prancer charges from thought’s courts of clay

Already God’s perfect answer meets the whisper on its way

1 John 5:14-15

This is the confidence we have in approaching God:

that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

15And if we know that he hears us—

whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

Friday, January 1, 2021

New Year's Prayer

New Year's Resolution-prayer

Posting the annual New Year's Card

(one that belonged to my Grandparents)

People used to send New Year's cards with words of

thankfulness and encouragement inside!

Let us not be like wisemen

Leaving gifts that we forget

Bending to pick up again

Hope’s cast-offs of fear and dread

Let us not return to drink

From the cesspools of this world

After we bowed at the brink

Of Living Water unfurled

Let us not forget the joys

We embraced on Christmas Eve

When we return to life’s noise

Let us still hope and believe

Let us not return to hills

To tend flocks of careworn earth

And forget the song that spilled

When angels announced His birth

Let us keep the love we feel

As we kneel in Bethlehem

Let us hope in Who is real

In Thy precious name, amen

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Unscripted and Uncensored

I'm so thankful that God can hear the prayers

we struggle to find words for!

I'm so thankful we don't need fancy and fine-art language to

come before the throne of grace!

Worship, wonder and want

wing their way to Him

when we pray...

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

and his ears are attentive to their cry;

You Hear Our Prayers

God hears our hearts; we need no eloquence or pre-writ script

For him to understand the worship and wants we impart

For it is not through fluency whereby we are equipped

God hears and sees the treasure and the measure of the heart

His eyes are on the righteous; his ears open to their pleas

We do not need to impress Him with artful eloquence

Into stutters and groanings he pours out His sympathies

And intercedes on our behalf with Mercy’s diligence

Unscripted and uncensored is the prayer that God can see

He hears the language of the heart when words fail to express

The intricate details of love and longing's earnest plea

And bestows His perfect reply with 'wait' or 'no' or 'yes'

Thursday, December 3, 2020

The Impact of a Whisper

When we behold the One at last

On Whom we cast our cares

Then we will stand where Time is past

and thus our need for prayers

Did You Think To Pray Charlie Pride

Years ago I was at a Charlie Pride Concert.

When he asked for favorites someone requested this song.

He couldn't completely remember it so he asked for the help

of the audience and we sang this song together.

We’ll never know how far they go

Who they will touch, or where

Or ever see entirely

The impact of a prayer

With trust we plead for humble need

For love like He portrayed

For faith, not fear to commandeer

And be doubt’s barricade

We pray for those who never chose

To serve Christ as their Lord

Oh, how we pray in case today

Death seals Choice’s reward

We pray for eyes to realize

More than first glance can prove

For strength and health and want for wealth

Of treasures stored above

We lift to Him the hearts that brim

With sorrow and despair

We ask God for hope to restore

Joy in spite of life’s care

We pray for the sick and those quick

To scorn Hope's Only Way

We pray for the poor who need more

From we with more than they

We pray for grace to help us face

The enemy of God

To help us bear another’s care

And thus fulfill love’s law

The warpath of faith, hope and love

Is stained with suffering

Where warriors wept while Mercy kept

Them sheltered 'neath His wing

We pray that He would help us be

A reflection of Him

And not put first desires cursed

With selfish wish and whim

We whisper pleas to He who sees

Each hard and hidden part

Where groaning bleeds He intercedes

For He beholds the heart

We pray, for oh we’ll never know

Who they will touch, when, where

Or see in full the miracle

That always starts with prayer

One among many examples of the miracles wrought through prayer!

Acts 12:1-19

Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison

1It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each.

Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

5So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

6The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. 7Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.

8Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. 9Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city.

It opened for them by itself, and they went through it.

When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.

11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches

and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”

12When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. 13Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. 14When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

15“You’re out of your mind,” they told her.

When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

16But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. 17Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,” he said,

and then he left for another place.

18In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter. 19After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him,

he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed.

Monday, November 30, 2020

The R&R of Prayer (Replenishing Relationship or Request-Result?)

Be still and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

sunset and moonrise happened simultaneously the other night...

This past Sunday morning our speaker challenged us

to consider what our motive is when we pray;

Is it result-driven or relationship-driven?

(confession!! I was thoroughly convicted!)

I Will wait for You-Praise and Harmony

In Need-Praise and Harmony

Oh God, I must confess my sin of emptiness and woe

When Your reply frustrates my ‘I’ with 'why' or 'when' or 'no'

Sometimes my prayer is more about results rather than You

When I allow despair and doubt to dictate Point of View

Help me to learn to be more still and know that You are God

Forgive me; my interpretation of Your will is flawed

How deceitful and wicked is my heart; You fully know

I grasp a microscopic part of the grace You bestow

The hollows and the holes of human nature gape and plead

Where only fellowship with God consoles our greatest need

God, help me to be meeker in my effort to depend

And be a humble seeker not of answers, but a Friend

Oh glorious Creator, we see but a glimpse of You

Greater than rolling sea, four-season-lea and yonder blue

The universe is but the outer fringe of who You are

How faint the whisper that we hear, hinged to Your thund'ring pow'r

Then help me Lord, to trust in You with all my heart and mind

My understanding is confused by perception, sight-blind

Forgive me when I put stock in matters seized by my hands

Forgive me when I balk at what obedience demands

God, you are not a God who lives in temples mortal-made

How often I forget who gives us Invisible aid

Then teach me how to pray through so much more than words I speak

And let relationship with You be the first thing I seek

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,

and all these things shall be added to you.

Matt. 6:33

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Prayer-power

I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession

and thanksgiving be made for all people—

1 Tim.2:1

last week's list just keeps growing!!

Did you feel God’s arms surround you with an ineffable peace?

When the cry of my heart found you did your weight of worry cease?

Did you sense Someone far greater step beneath your heavy load?

Did you meet with your Creator on fear’s dark Jericho Road?

Did you wonder at the whisper that seemed to come from thin air?

Did you recognize your Master as He ministered through prayer?

Did you feel His arms around you as you struggled up faith’s hill?

When the cry of my heart found you, did He whisper ‘peace be still’?

Our Father who art in Heaven

Grant us the courage to pray

Thy Will be done

And faith to trust Your reply

For Thine is the Kingdom,

The power and

the glory,

forever and ever,

Amen

One of my favorite renditions of this song!

Peace, Be Still

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Seeing Through the Glass Darkly or Prayer Changes Things/Us

This is not just any old chair...

Many, a many a prayer has climbed faith's stair from this old chair!

Prayers for forgiveness, wisdom, healing, patience and trust

and above all, love.

Prayer changes things; it transcends logic’s altitude of facts

And transfers answers onus to He who His will exacts

Mercy makes no mistakes, though the middle of His reply

May feel like harsh rebuttals to the creature of the cry

Prayer changes things; even when reasoning is mystified

And ‘answers’ do not always feel like God is on our side

Prayer changes things, if faith can learn to trust enough to yield

And leave it all to Love until His purpose is revealed

Prayer changes things; it flees the cage of comprehension’s scope

And leaves the outcome with the One who is man’s Living Hope

Prayer teaches us to listen as He whispers ‘Peace, be still’

While He works out for Greater Good the purpose of His will

Prayer changes things, like attitudes impaired with fear or pride

The Potter shapes the clay where change begins; on the inside

And just as Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane

Prayed to his Father so He bids us all ‘come unto Me’

Prayer changes things; as we begin to relinquish control

And surrender the answers to the Saviour of the soul

Prayer is the hiding place beneath the feathers of His wings

Where God gathers us close, so close to Him; prayer changes things

We pray yet often prayers feel unanswered.

We pray for healing and people die.

We pray for the salvation of lost souls, ‘but they will not’

We pray for change that does not happen

For love that seems to fail.

But we see through a glass darkly. We see in part.

Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and taught us how to pray;

Matt.26:39

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed,

"My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.

Yet not as I will, but as you will."

He was brutally crucified. He died.

It looked like His prayer was unanswered but

God the Father sees beyond the present circumstance/suffering!

Isa. 53:10-11

Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
    and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

After he has suffered,
    he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.

Heb 2. 8-10

Now in putting everything in subjection to him,

he left nothing outside his control.

At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus,

crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death,

so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist,

in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation

perfect through suffering...

How Deep The Father's Love For Us