You're in Jail

You’re in Jail.  You have committed crimes worthy of death.  They take you before the judge and the judge presents to you the Law. He presents two sides: “this is how you were to behave, this is how you did behave.”  A large lump develops in your throat. Your breathing becomes short for you know death awaits you. 

The Judges ask you “How do you plead?”  And as you try to muster up the courage to say guilty, the doors of the courtroom fly open.  In walks your Father,  whom you have not seen all your life. He says, “Judge, allow me to take my sons place!” The judge quickly agrees and they arrest your Father in your place! The guards whisk him away into bondage.  You on the other hand are rushed out of the courtroom, and onto the stairs in front of the building.  No one is there for they are all inside gasping at what just happened.

You are at a lost. Your whole life has been spent incarcerated, and now you are in a city you don’t know.  You can’t believe what just happened. You know it should be you going to the death chamber, but instead you are now free.  You can no longer go and see your Father physically but the feeling of what He did for you remains with you always.

As you begin to walk down the street, unsure of where to go, you come across a man who says, come with me. You are undeniably drawn and you go.  When you get arrive, you find people in fellowship, laughing, connecting, loving, teaching, and sharing, they welcome you with open arms.

You are brought into the fold and you begin to learn where you went wrong, why what you did was punishable by death. You begin to learn about your Father.  You now feel welcomed, accepted, loved and cared for.  But it doesn’t stop there, you are so filled you are compelled to go back to the steps of the courthouse.  However, now you are not looking for your Father. You are looking for the one, who just was thrown out of the courtroom like you because His Father took his place also. And you begin to compel this man to come to the to experience the same love you experienced.

As for your Father?  He’s not dead.  For He now lives inside of you. Have you been that convicted felon who was set free? Did you know your daddy took the death sentence for you? Do you need to be shown how to be a true man or woman of God? Can you help show another how to have their Daddy with them always? Wherever you are now, Go Farther, now!