They pressed a crown of thorns into his head, but
he did it anyway. They struck him with a
staff, but he did it anyway. They spit
on him, but he did it anyway. They
mocked him, but he did it anyway. They
led him to be crucified, but he did it anyway.
They hurled insults at him, but he did it anyway. His mother was watching, but he did it anyway. They crucified him, and he let them.
While reading through these last verses I couldn’t
help but think about what he went through just for me. He knew that I would be sitting on my couch
tonight reading his word and he knew that I would love him a little more
because of what I realized tonight. You
see with every insult, with ever blow he took, he thought of you and I, and so
he did it anyway. He could have stopped
all this at any point, but he chose to do it anyway. Why?
Because his love for us is greater than anything that he would ever have
to endure. He knew that this was the
only way, it was the only way that you and could make it to him.
I have known this story for as long as I can
remember, but it has never touched me like it did tonight. As I was reading I kept on thinking why did
they have to do all these things to him?
Why couldn’t they have just killed him if they wanted him dead, why did
they have to beat him? Why did they have
to make fun of him and who he was? I was
sharing these thoughts with my husband and he, in his usual simplistic way,
said…that it is how it was supposed to be, there was no other way. He is right, this was God’s plan all along
and just like our life we may never understand why things happen the way they
do, but we have to completely trust God’s will for our lives. After all, a God that sends his only son to
die for us can only have our best interest in mind.
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