JESUS CHRIST    OUR    "TUNING    FORK"!!!!!!!!!

Definition: Tuning Fork - A small two-pronged metal device that when STRUCK produces a sound
of fixed pitch, used for tuning musical instruments.

JESUS CHRIST is our "Strength and our Song" (Isaiah 12:2); and our Tuning Fork.

"HE was pierced for our transgressions,
HE was crushed for our iniquities;
The punishment necessary for us to have peace - was put on HIM,
and by His stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)

As punishment for MY SINS and for YOUR SINS-
JESUS was STRUCK repeatedly with a WHIP ("scourged") (John 19:1).

JESUS was STRUCK with the hands of the Roman soldiers. (Luke 22:62-63).

HE was STRUCK with the extreme difficulty of His sacrifice for us...

"And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly.  Then His sweat became like
great drops of BLOOD falling down to the ground." (Luke 22:44)

BUT JESUS responded with "a sound of fixed pitch" (see definition of tuning fork-above):
"And HE said, 'ABBA, FATHER, all things are possible for YOU. Take this cup away from
ME; nevertheless, not what I will, but what YOU will." (Mark 14:36)


Let us (you and me)--- as Jesus always did---submit to our FATHER-------
Let us CONTINUE to SUBMIT to our FATHER-----so that HE can work into our character
the same heart as JESUS---

Here are three (3) declarations that would be great to start with:
1) "Father, not my will, but THY will be done."

2)"THANK YOU, O GOD MOST HIGH!!!"

3)"PRAISE YOU O HOLY LAMB OF GOD!!!"

Let us submit to HIS transforming of us---so that when WE are "struck" by life, circumstances, etc.---
so that we (will respond with "a sound of fixed pitch."  ***(see 1, 2, or 3 above).

"LIKE JESUS" - that is GOD'S PLAN;
let it be our ACTION!!!

SDG   Soli Deo Gloria "to the glory of GOD alone".