Thought for the month
At last the light nights are with us again.
This month we will be thinking about the sacrifice Our Lord Jesus Christ made when he allowed himself to be hung on a cross to die so that we who believe in Him can have eternal life.
I find Good Friday such a sad day. I know we humans can be very cruel at times but how a chosen race could condemn a man to death on a cross when he had healed so many people of all kinds of illnesses, taught in synagogues endless times, miraculously fed thousands of people and never done harm to any body or sinned in any way is hard to comprehend. When I read in my Bible that Jesus was flogged, hit on the head with a large lump of wood, spat on, punched in the face and humiliated I feel ashamed to think that a human being could do such things to an innocent man, and they knew he was innocent of all the charges but they didn’t want to give up the easy life they had made for themselves.
Have you ever stopped to think that Our Lord Jesus would have suffered terrible lacerations from the flogging, His head would have been covered in open wounds from the crown of thorns they placed on His head, His whole body would have been open wounds and bruised and yet he didn’t utter a word, just as is described in Isaiah 53. When He was hanging on the cross flies would have been nibbling at his bleeding body, the sun would have been beating down on Him and yet He was prepared to hang there and endure what is the cruelest form of punishment there was 2,000 odd years ago.
Of course, we know there was a happy ending to this terrible episode because on Easter Sunday we celebrate the Risen Christ and between the time of His rising and the time of His Ascension hundreds of people witnessed the miracle of His defeat of death. With so much proof as exists today that Jesus is alive and is still healing the sick, guiding us, keeping all the promises that He made, I find it incredible that so few people acknowledge all that He did for us.
Our Lord never breaks a promise and is true to His word He will come again read Acts 1 v 11