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One spring, day on an apple farm in. Michigan, some men who had been pruning an, orchard made. a great pile of branches about 100 yards from the farmer\u2019s barn. One morning the farmer saw a bird carrying to that pile of prunings materials for a nest. So he marked the spot with a stick. At sundown, with the bird flying about and chirping wildly, the man reached into the pile and tore the nest apart. If the bird were thinking, she was saying to herself, \u201cHow cruel this man is!\u201d Next day the man saw the bird again trying to build at another place in the same pile. Again he marked it with a stick, and at night he destroyed all the work that the bird had done. No doubt the bird\u2019s wild flutterings and chirpings were bird language for \u201cThis evil man! How terrible he is to destroy my nest!\u201d On the third day he noticed that the bird was building in a rose bush near the house. He smiled and let the bird alone. The farmer had intended to burn the branch pile, and he knew if the bird were allowed to build among the branches, the nest and its little fledglings would have been destroyed. So in great kindness he had torn the two earlier nest apart. On the cross of Calvary we see that there are no accidents! As Jesus hung there, \u201cthe just for the unjust,\u201d it looked as though there had been an accident; that God had made a mistake. But on the third day after, when \u201cGod raised him for our justification,\u201d all believers knew that \u201cthe cross was for our good\u201d and so the previous Friday was called \u201cGood.\u201d Out of that seeming tragedy, Christ paid the eternal price demanded by God for our sins. \u201cThe Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennis A Kastens, Once You Were Darkness, CSS, 1980, p. 80.<\/em><\/p>\n

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