I had just turned 13 and a bunch of us girls from my Youth Group decided it would be cool to go see the JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Musical.
Mrs. B. my friends Mom, volunteered to be our Chaperone.
She picked us up that evening and ten of us gawky teenage girls piled, stuffed and squeezed ourselves into her 1969 Chrysler Plymouth Station Wagon.
I sat all the way in the back by the big window where I had a perfect view of the snow flurries and colorful twinkling Christmas lights on our adventure to the city.
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| DONNA (ROBERTS) LIND 13 #skinnyhippiechick <3 |
The theater was packed and scent of patchouli incense was wafting throughout the Lobby.
We found our seats just before the lights blinked for the show to start.
The enormous Red Velvet curtains opened up and the show began.
I sat spellbound as the biggest Orchestra I had every seen played the JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR OVERTURE! It was ELECTRIFYING!
Scene after scene, Song after song I was hooked!
I fell in Love with JESUS that day.
A different kind of Love than when I was seven years old and I gave my heart to JESUS at an Old Church Tent Revival.
This was BIG LOVE!
This was JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR!!!
I had just witnessed the life, death and resurrection of JESUS right before my eyes!
Yes, I know it was actors portraying it all on stage, but to me, a thirteen year old girl with a tender loving heart, it was real!
I was there when they nailed Him to the Cross!
I cried and I shook and I closed my eyes. How could they do this to Him? How could I do this to Him?
I felt everything as if it really happened right then and there!
No longer would I look at the pictures in my Bible the same.
No longer would I read a scripture and not remember the 39 lashes, the pounding of the nails, the stone that was rolled away or remember JESUS ascending to Heaven in the clouds and promising someday to come back for me!
No longer would JESUS be just a guy in a story. He was REAL!
What He endured on the Cross at Calvary for me was REAL!
What He endured on the Cross for you at Calvary was REAL!
Did I ever mess up after that day?
Yes I sure did, over and over again!
Did JESUS still Love me after I messed up?
Yes He sure did over and over again!
The Good News is that JESUS Loves you too!
JESUS CHRIST WAS A SUPERSTAR TO ME IN 1972 AND FORTY FIVE YEARS LATER IN 2017, JESUS CHRIST IS STILL MY SUPERSTAR AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!!
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." Hebrews 13:8
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