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In second grade of elementary school the girls used to play a game with some wildflowers that were blooming. They would pick a flower; mention a boy’s name they liked and pull of one petal of the flower at a time. As they did this they would say, “He loves me” and with the next petal, “He loves me not”. The last petal left was supposed to show how the person mentioned really felt about them. We don’t have to play that game to know if God loves us or not. He proved it over 2000 years ago. It was the day that Christ Jesus suffered and died on the cross for us, (Romans 5:8). Part of it involved the verbal (Luke 22:63) and terrible physical abuse (John 19:1-3) He endured. He was innocent, (John 19:4) but sentenced, (John 19:6) to a slow death on a cross. They drove nails or spikes through His hands and feet and placed Him on a wooden cross so all the people could see, and there He died hours later, (John 19:30). Jesus cried out, "It is finished!" It was at that place and at that moment that the innocent blood of the Son of God was shed for us so we could have our sins forgiven, (Matthew 26:27,28). It was not just the forgiveness of our sins but also the hope of a whole new relationship to God
