... that You, my King, should die for me

What it means to be crucified. As I am getting a taste for what it meant for the God of Love to send His only begotten Son to endure such a tremendous death to the point of satisfying the wrath of God. To take on the worlds sin, what a tremendous responsibility. If we have accepted Christ as our Savior, how much suffering do we endure ourselves for His sake?

Imagine the onslaught of hatred Christ endured during His crucification. All the hatred and destruction of darkness was finally released upon Him with such virtuosity. To suffer the consequences of our sin in a payment by receiving an onslaught of relentless punishment, shame, guilt, pain, rejection, inflicting such pain. This is what Christ gets for coming and spreading the Truth of God to those amongst us? One of my favorite songs says, "Amazing love, how can it be... That You, my King, should die for me?".

But at what price.

Imagine the God of Love allowing such a gruesome death to happen to His Son. To His Son. For those fathers, imagine sending your son somewhere to suffer. What was it like for God to sit there until the very end when Christ said "it is complete".

Christ was a man who KNEW NO SIN, until that day when He... paid the price. He paid the price for OUR SIN, THAT 'WE' CAUSE. He paid the bounty of our death, on the cross; is that is to say that the penalty for sin is death, and He did that for us. Now, through Him, we have the forgiveness of sins and everlasting life. He paid the price by not even offering any form of currency; He only paid the price by turning Himself in. Exchanging Himself for us. Exchanging Himself for Barnabas, whom Pilate released as he gave a choice to the Pharisees to release Christ or Barnabas??? Are we not Barnabas?

He pretty much said: Here I am.


After thoughts:

Imagine all the coordination that God orchestrated for all of this to happen. For the gospel of Jesus to unfold. For Judas to lead the romans to Christ. For Pilate to wash his hands in his bowl from this situation and not judge Him, but to let the Pharisees have their way with Him. Everything happened perfectly. What does that mean. It means, that all the trials we go through... in the end we can say "it is complete" as Christ said just before He died. He was sent as a sojourner, just as we are- this is not our home. God authored Christ's journey here on earth, and God is authoring our lives. Christ wants us to trust Him in our trials because He endure them all and knows what the answer is. We have to tune in through our counselor the Holy Spirit to listen to God's plan for us.

Don't battle these trial by yourself, I can do all things through Christ. Without Him, I can do nothing. He is our Savior. Acknowledge all your ways before Him and He shall make your path straight.