Yes, the love note came with a guarantee like a Cabbage Patch doll that comes with a birth certificate . Many aspects of the guarantee were extraordinary and deserve contemplation and commentary not the least of which is the ink in which it was written. The guarantee of the love note was written in the ink of suffering. The guarantee of the love note was a collaboration between us and our God. God supplied the love. We supplied the ink. Contrary to normal expectations, we baptized him not he us . We baptized him in a boiling cauldron of suffering . Adversity is the test of genuineness. Adversity distinguishes the genuine from the counterfeit. We put the love note to the test of adversity . We opened bloody wounds in his body with lash, thorns, nails and spear. Buckets of blood poured through his wounds. On a cataract of blood his very life itself was carried out of his body. But not a drop - not a drop - of his love for us followed his blood through his wounds and out of his body. His most sacred heart stayed filled to the brim with love for us. Witness the truth by watching the traffic through his bloody wounds. His bloody wounds are the memorials of his love for us. They are the credentials of divinity. The serpent has no bloody wounds. Jesus, on the other hand, does. A counterfeit love note would not have submitted to the test of adversity in the first place. A counterfeit love note would not have emerged from its brutal baptism intact and undiminished.
