REALIZATION
Today's reading:  Matthew 26-28

"Don't you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect me, and he would send them instantly?  But if I did, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that describe what must happen now?"  Matthew 26:53 NLT

Don't you realize?

The immensity of His determination that we be His?

The all-encompassing love He has for us?

The horrible eternity He wants to save us from?

The capacity of His grace and mercy?

I don't think we do.  I don't believe we have it in us to assess the situation of the Garden and the Cross with the emotion it required from our Lord and Savior.

We haven't a clue as to how very much He truly loves us.

All the compassions of all the tender fathers in the world compared with the tender mercies of our God would be but as a candle to the sun or a drop to the ocean.              -Matthew Henry