the value of a son

This morning when I was in my devotional with my Lord, the owner of my heart, the owner of my life, the Lord put in me some words that kept beating in my thoughts, in my mind, and it was the value of a son but in English: the value of a son, and I said: Lord, what do you want me to do with these words? and continued. Since I already know him and when he wants something as they say, like he pushes, he does a lot, right? speaking here between us, I said: let me look for this.

So I also googled: the value of a son and something very interesting came out that I know in a few words, let's see if I can say it in three or four minutes, and it's a story that touched my heart, and I I know these words are for some of you, or for some of you who are watching me on the broadcast that is coming out right now, it is a story of a man who was a father, his name was Greg, and Greg had lost a son, he had lost a son to murder, a man, a young man took the life of his beloved son.

The day came, a day long awaited by Greg because in the state victims who have suffered losses in one of their relatives could meet with the person who took the lives of their loved ones, the day came. It was a day that Greg had been waiting for twenty years to happen.

He got out of his car, entered the prison and waited in a special room, and was standing with his hands in his pockets next to a metal table. At that moment, while he waited, his hands were sweating and the moment came when he found himself face to face with that man who took the life of his son.

They sat down Greg and this man, we're going to call him the murderer, right? they sat facing each other. When he saw this man, many thoughts ran through his mind and they were: what am I going to say to this man now? because for twenty years he had even written down all the insults that he was going to give to the murderer of his son, he had planned all the words that were going to make him an emotional cripple, he had written all the words that were going to destroy this murderer who took the life of his son.

But when he had it face to face with him, that father had a problem and it was that he had nothing to say. She couldn't say anything, the words, her mouth closed, her mind was troubled and she had no words for that man. And I want to tell you, and I don't know if there are people here who still don't have Jesus as Savior that this Word goes in different directions so you take the part that touches you, amen?

When Greg, the father, because his name was Greg, opened his mouth, he spoke softly to his son's murderer and was surprised because instead of harshness, insults and hurtful words, he spoke softly. And that murderer told him: "Do you have a problem, don't you have anything to tell me?" and he said: "I have nothing to tell you." Thank my Lord.

What is wrong that I can't tell you anything? And the murderer said to the man: "You have waited a long time, and yes, if you have words to hurt me, I give you the reason because all the victims who have lost their lives because of us, the murderers, insult us for the crimes we have committed." against their lives."

And the murderer told him: “usually people who lose their relatives through murders, they too inside their hearts become murderers because they are filled with hate and fear, and when you hate it is like murder.”

"Are you calling me a murderer?" Greg asked and he said, “Not necessarily because I see that you no longer hate the way you are treating me, but I do remember twenty years ago when you looked at me in court with hateful eyes for taking away life to his son, twenty years ago."

The father told him: “If I could, at that time I would have taken your life. I thought so many horrible things to commit against you, of course I hated you and of course, back then I also became a murderer.”

And the murderer said to him: "How are you with God?" what a barbaric right? like it's upside down here, the murderer speaks to the father of God, how are you with God? "But this has nothing to do with God" the father told him and he told him: of course, if it hadn't been for God I would never be here in front of you, but God worked with me. If God had not humiliated me, if God had not broken me, if God had not transformed me from the horrible man that I was, I would not be here in front of you, of course it has to do with this.

And the greatest irony is that the murderer told his father: "I am not here for myself but for you, because as you know I am going to be here for the rest of my life but you have a life to live, so I am here. You think?" the father told him “that we are here for me? what can I receive from you, murderer of my son?

And the man told him: “a few years ago I was stabbed here in prison, I received a stab in the heart and I was on the verge of death, and that horrible man had an encounter with God because I realized my mortality, there was my moment with God.”

There is a moment of God with you beloved woman. I believe that God allowed that moment and allows moments to call our attention because many times we forget God and walk in an arrogant spirit, and we forget God.

The father told him: “I don't know what you are talking about” and the murderer told him: “perhaps this is your moment. And the greatest thing" he said "that there was a king who loved his people, but the people of his town were dying because they had a disease in their blood, and the only way that the people of that town could be saved was with the the king's blood because it was royal blood, and the king did not know what to do, but his son came, his only son, and said: dad, since you love the people and I love the people, we both love them in the same way, I am going to give my blood, and that son died and saved everyone's life."

The father was confronted by God in that appointment with that murderer, because when God speaks to you he speaks to you who you least expect, because God's moments for your life will come when you least imagine it.

And that father said to him: “Was that son Jesus?” and the murderer said: “yes. You know the value of a son." You know the value of a son, how many of us have valued the Son of God? How many have forgiven those who have hurt them?

That man when he was confronted by God and God caught his attention because man knew God but not enough, man needed to forgive, man needed peace and that meeting with the murderer was the way God began to work with him. The man got so confused and so confused that all his thoughts and his whole mind became a whirlwind, he pushed the guards and left that prison, quickly got into his car and began to sob.

“What am I going to tell my family, what am I going to tell my wife, what am I going to tell my friends? because everyone was waiting for me to insult that man, but God confronted me through that man because that man was transformed by God.

There are people who have hurt you. Perhaps one of you has lost a child, someone has taken your children's lives, I don't know, I don't know, or someone who is watching me on the broadcast, those people also need God's forgiveness and they also need God's love. God. Through the life of that man this man was able to know the love of God.