From my childhood days...

In Saginaw

Those of you from Saginaw Michigan know about Ojibway Island.  Well then what was that park’s name that was west of it next to the zoo?  That particular park in the winter we would go sledding and ice skating.  Most of my older siblings and cousins would be sledding off one of the slides while I and another cousin would be ice skating down the hill.  Well I can remember us having too much fun even though it was cold and we knew that once we were done some would be found later at the house crying because their hands or feet where almost frost bitten. Funny when you look back and think about it though.  Well, while skating down the hill one evening I fell (listen, I really did this time) and my cousins who was there with me skated past me up. I knew he would be just ahead of me bracing to catch me, I thought.  Just as I got close to him he sticks out his hand, then pulls it back and says suuuuckeeeerrrr.  I proceed to hit a bump, fly in the air come down and bash my head on the ice.  I continue sliding down the hill towards the bottom of the hill to where the fire was that people warmed themselves.  Unable to brace myself at all and incoherent to what was about to happen,  surely I was going to hit that fire and be burned to death possibly.  Well, like I said I did fall, never got hurt though,  wasn’t any fire at all by the way(that was inside the house at the park) we certainly went to skate and sled at that park, but my cousin never did or said what I said he said and did.  Wouldn’t that have been terrible?  Well now let me tell you, in my last post I told you about the first man whom God created, Adam, he fell, which in turn as we all know now that that fall, all of mankind share.  That fall is sin.  Check this out though, since God knew that we were going to fall He made provision for us and went ahead of us and not only caught the first Adam but all of us as well.  Now we are no longer sliding our way to certain fiery death, cause our Lord Jesus Christ has was bruised for my iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.  We had gone astray and turned to our own way, but the God had laid on Him the iniquity of us all.  He was oppressed and He was afflicted for us, ain’t that something, and didn’t even say anything while He did it for us.  Like a sheep He was led out to this torture and death for me.  Isn’t it good that God didn’t pull back His hand on us?  Isn’t it wonderful that He didn’t say anything, just died for the sin of the whole world?  It’s written in the Bible that salvation is for everyone who believes.  You know instead of Him being a sheep, now he says my sheep hear my voice. Can you hear the Lord Jesus Christ?