{"id":367,"date":"2017-02-18T18:12:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T23:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2017-02-18T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T23:39:41","slug":"x-marks-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/18\/x-marks-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"X Marks the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early this morning before waking, I had a dream but it was more like a vision. I saw the image of a target. The background was a light gray with three black circles, each one smaller in diameter then the next. In the center was a big gray X. Then I heard the words, \u201cX marks the spot.\u201d<\/em> I saw this three times. Then I saw a large three dimensional cross and the words, \u201cthis is the X that marked the spot.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
I woke up and began to think about what I had just seen.<\/h6>\n
I will try to explain what I understood.<\/h6>\n
Usually when we hear the words, \u201cX marks the spot,\u201d <\/em>it has to do with seeing a specific place on a map. I pictured in my mind being in outer space and looking down on planet earth\u2026then zooming in on a tiny place, the place was Jerusalem. Over two thousand years ago a Cross or an X stood on top of a hill\u2026called Golgotha, which means, the place of the skull.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Focus on this spot\u2026and picture the cross. It was an X marking the spot where God\u2019s son would hang and die.<\/h6>\n
Jerusalem is a tiny place\u2026Yet Jerusalem is known to the\u00a0whole world.<\/h6>\n
Then I read something yesterday and it hit me\u2026I had one of those AHHHHHH moments\u2026I was overtaken with such insight and an incomprehensible thought of just what God did on that spot.<\/h6>\n
So here God is in the beginning of time, looking at earth and as he is spinning the earth on his finger he sets it on its axis\u2026then he decides to hang stars and moons and the sun and he sits back as if to say\u2026Oh this is going to be epic<\/em>\u2026then he flings the rest of the planets into orbit and thinks\u2026this is very good!<\/em><\/h6>\n
He creates all living things by His word. But His greatest design is the creation of a man\u2026He loves him and cares for him and watches him grow and play and live in peace and happiness. God sees the man needs a helpmate and gives the man what is needed.<\/h6>\n
He comes to dinner with them and talks to them about whatever their heart desires. They are His children. And God loves them. There is no evil in them they are good. Good and perfect, innocent little children. They know only that God is a God of perfect Love and goodness\u2026<\/h6>\n
And then the unthinkable happens\u2026in one instant everything changes\u2026they do what God said they must not do and evil enters the garden\u2026in that one reckless moment\u2026God is crushed, heartbroken, for now He knows exactly what he must do to restore fellowship with his very own children\u2026God, must die!<\/h6>\n
Can you see it? Can you see what this means?<\/h6>\n
One action of disobedience changed the world forever\u2026\"\"<\/h6>\n
And God knew what it would take to restore mankind and His relationship\u2026He knew that everything had to be set up in order\u2026<\/h6>\n
That it would take years and ages and wars and people like Seth and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and Boaz, and Rahab and David and Mary to say yes\u2026in order for God to be born, and die and resurrect so that you and I could once more be in a right relationship with Him\u2026<\/h6>\n
Do you see what God did?<\/h6>\n
Why?<\/h6>\n
Because He loves us so much.\u00a0He knew that He had to come and\u00a0die on\u00a0a cross, the X, which marked the spot, where He would forever change death back to life\u2026<\/h6>\n
Think about it\u2026<\/h6>\n
God loves you so much!! Can you love Him back? Will you accept Him and walk with Him and be His child?<\/h6>\n
There is a target and there is a big X on it\u2026God is saying he wants you to say, Yes to Him. Yes to restoration between you and Him.<\/em><\/h6>\n
X marks the spot; that spot is your heart! <\/em><\/h6>\n
Will you keep breaking God’s heart or will you let Him restore yours?<\/h6>\n
–Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill February 18, 2017<\/h6>\n
God<\/em> called to the Man: \u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
He said, \u201cI heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
God<\/em> said, \u201cWho told you, you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
The Man said, \u201cThe Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
God<\/em> said to the Woman, \u201cWhat is this that you\u2019ve done?\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u201cThe serpent seduced me,\u201d she said, \u201cand I ate.\u201d<\/em> Genesis 3:9-13 The Message Bible<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to a place called Golgotha (which means \u201cthe place of the skull\u201d). Matthew 27:32-33 New International Version (NIV)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
The angel said to the women, \u201cDo not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.<\/em> He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: \u2018He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.\u2019 Now I have told you.\u201d Matthew 28:5-7 (NIV)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.<\/em> When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, \u201cAll authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.\u201d Matthew 28:17-20 (NIV)<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n

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