Wednesday, March 29, 2017




March 29, 2017






March 29, 2017


Dear Parents,

Nails are on my mind, and I have Levi Van Peursem to thank for that.  Levi, a senior from Orange City, stepped on a nail this weekend while working on a corn crib demolition.  And that became a story worth sharing.  The nail went through his boot and into his right foot, just below and slightly to the right of his big toe. That is quite the nail. He brought it to school to show his friends and even his principal. A badge of honor, I would say!  He worked through the pain to finish the demolition. 

I was impressed that he was able to keep working after that nail went through part of his foot.  I shiver thinking of what that must have felt like.   

In this Easter season, nails are an important part of our story and God’s story.  Jesus stepped into our darkness to rescue us.  He took more than a corn crib nail through a boot. Jesus took not just one nail, but multiple nails, and his body weight hung on these nails.  All for the purpose of destroying our sin and for destroying death. 

1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)
24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
Our individual stories go to the cross, and because of Jesus, beyond the cross.  Praise God for the sacrifice, the gift and the freedom we have in Him. 

W. Dykstra




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