This week for Christmas in July, I am sharing an excerpt from my book, Redemption, the Heartbeat of Christmas, What the Birth of Christ Means to the World. The book is available on Amazon. I hope this reminder of what Jesus did for us will speak to your heart, as God did to mine.
What is the Depth of Redemption? by Barbara Latta @barbaralatta
In church, we hear a lot about
redemption. Sometimes we hear the word so much we lose the depth of its
meaning.
What is the depth of redemption? We
can better understand how deep Jesus’ sacrifice was for us by thinking about a
person in prison.
Those of us who have not experienced
the despair of imprisonment can’t fully understand the feelings of this
punishment. My husband and I were confined to two weeks of quarantine when a we
arrived in a foreign country during the Covid pandemic.
We lived for two weeks in an Army barracks with only thirty
minutes of fresh outside air per day.
Days dragged on minute by minute,
hour by hour.
We walked ten
feet from one wall to the other to stretch our legs.
We looked out the window at the scenic air conditioner unit below our floor.
Packaged food appeared at mealtime.
The next day repeated the same boredom, the same meals, the
same hard mattresses. As bad as this felt, we were released after our required
time ended. The day we left with our luggage blessed us with a small taste of
freedom.
Our experience had no comparison to life in a penitentiary.
