IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS

 

 (Isa. 53:3-5) "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

      Whenever I see or read the events leading up to Christ's crucifixion, there is nothing happy or anything to me to be joyous about. Reading and viewing the way he was beaten, slapped, ridiculed, rejected, spat upon, and finally killed just breaks my heart. Realizing and knowing through the Word of God how he suffered as he did still seems fresh to me even though it happened thousands of years ago.
       This is a time when we should reflect on the cost of the cross. A time to be thankful for God loving us so much that He sent someone in our place to redeem us back to Him. This should be a time to renew and rededicate our commitment to the one who gave his life for us all. This should be a time to share Jesus' love to others that don't know about it. This should be a time set aside to be thankful for the blood of Jesus that he shed for our sins.  Though it is painful to comprehend, he did it "just for us."
       Nothing in the monetary treasuries of this world could compensate for what Jesus did on Calvary. As they hung him high and stretched him wide, his silent message on the cross to the world was, "This is how much I love you" and died. Jesus took all our minuses (- sins/negatives) on the cross, and made them pluses (+ purity/positives) +FORGIVEN+