Excerpt taken from Reflections On The Passion by Charles Hugo Doyle
“Not until we stand before Christ in judgment will we ever know how often and with great effort Christ has tried to save each one of us. We shall be confused and confounded when we learn the amount of grace Christ showered upon us, often at the very moments when we were resisting the warnings of conscience, the pleading of parents, teachers, priests, friends–bent upon doing our own will and seeking our own pleasures, albeit this involved the breaking of God’s own laws.
When you have thought long and well on what Christ has done for you, the graces with which He has showered you, I am sure you will be compelled to thank Him with all your soul because His mercy has outweighed His justice in your regard.”
Amen! I think we’ll all be pleasantly surprised.
Thank you for such a wonderful reminder. The price he paid for us is much greater then any gift given.
I hope we get to see how the whole story unfolds someday. I’d love to learn all of the behind-the-scene details that we miss here on Earth!
I once heard the analogy of looking at the backside of a tapestry or a piece of cross stitch, the front reveals a very different picture than the back.