Transforming Moments for September 27 2006

As he leafed through the newspaper one Wednesday morning in the fall of 2006, Police Chief James Cavallo thought there was something awfully familiar about the bank robbery suspect pictured in a grainy surveillance photo. Studying the suspect’s slender build, the way he carried himself, the red baseball cap he wore, Chief Cavallo came to a terrible conclusion: the young man who had robbed the bank was his own son. And so, as painful as it was, he turned him in. Police arrested James Cavallo Jr., who confessed to the robbery. In one transforming moment, a father had to do the unthinkable to his own son in order to satisfy the law he had sworn to uphold. 2000 years ago, our heavenly Father faced the same kind of transforming moment when He turned from his own son and sacrificed Him on a cross to pay the price for our lawlessness. Only Jesus could never confess His own guilt. He had none. But He did carry mine. And yours. Aren’t you grateful?