Daily writing prompt

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

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A tortured man who had his back ripped to shreds and was repeatedly punched in the face was forced to wear a royal purple robe. Then he was brought in front of a crowd of angry people, with his bloody head wrapped in a thorn-filled vine. The governor said, “Behold the man,” and declared him not guilty. But the crowd disagreed and clamored for his execution. Reluctantly the governor went along with the crowd.

That humble, broken man, overflowing with love and mercy, changed my life even though he had been executed almost 2,000 years before my birth. How is that possible? I can’t explain it. All I know is that I heard a young man say that that man is alive today and tell how Jesus had changed his life. As the young man testified about Jesus (the Creator of the Universe in human flesh) something I don’t understand happened instantly inside my heart. I suddenly was aware of the presence of the resurrected Jesus Christ and He has been the most real person in my life ever since then.

Here’s an example of how Jesus continues to work in my life. I woke up very early this morning with this poem about Jesus being the Way, forming in my heart and mind. Later I went to a blog I read every morning, and the title of today’s post is The Way.

The way to make
The world a better place
Is to prepare the way
In your heart
For the Lord
To have more space
To do His will
In and through you.

The best ointment
To heal the pain of
Disappointment
Is a heart-to-heart
Appointment with God.
He always has
Time for you.
Spend your time
Always opening
Your heart to Him.

If you will replace
Hate with forgiveness,
The world will be
A better place
And much pain and heaviness
Will depart
From your heart.

I’m amazed how often God confirms things by putting them on the hearts of people who don’t even know each other. It’s time for all Christ-followers to be trailblazing pioneers and to prepare the way of the Lord! The risen Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life all year long all the years of our life!