For you

They began to spit ------ Beat him with their fists ----- Some slapped him, jeering

Matt:26:67-68

It would be humiliating to be spat upon the face. His face would have been fully red out of bruise. A racoon eye probably. It is menial to be made fun off - more menial when people make fun of you disbelieving what you claim or what you really are.

Matt:27:26 Jesus was flogged with a lead tipped whip

 Skin might have shredded to pieces, pieces of muscles torn away, splurting blood everywhere. Pain unable to be described in words.

Psalm:129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back.

Hematomas everywhere. Anaemic because of the blood loss. Internal organs lacerated. Excruciating pain from the tip of the hair to the toe. Dehydrated. Stinking. Stripped naked and made to walk through the streets in front of the ones you loved, the ones who loved you.

Thorns on His brow. Nails driven through the median nerve. Struggling to breath hanging on the cross. He has to pull Himself up to expand His lungs on those nails.

Contusions and lacerations everywhere. Everyone whom He considered His own ran away. His own mother stands in front of the cross seeing His pathetic plight. Hope lost for the helpless women He loved. His disciples deserted Him

Even more abjecting is the weight of the sin of the whole world. The very thing He abhored is all over Him. Waiting to devour Him. A holy God made a mockery. Eternal Father's fellowship and communion lost.

Lonely, bruised, ridiculed, left to be finished on that Calvary mount. Jesus being God had all the power to bring in a lightning from above and finished everything. He calmed the storm. He had the strength to raise one too. That would have been heroism. Stepping down from the cross unbruised in front of their eyes as if nothing happened, with a smile of victory smeared on His face.

But He chose to bear it all, because He had you in mind. He had me in mind. That to me is the 180 degree turn in my life. Sinner saved. My life changed because of that. How about you?

According to the eternal law, I had to bear it all, the punishment of my sin. And even if I bear it, it would never be repaid fully for I am unholy and He is infinitely holy. A finite being cannot repay an infinitely holy God. He has to keep on paying for eternity, like the unpaid dues of your credit card. Only an infinitely holy God Himself could repay. And if I don't receive the repay, the only option left for me is to repay it infinitely. And hell is not a comfortable place even for a second, forget about eternity.

Dear one, Jesus is not a myth or a beautiful story. He is God Himself who came down to save you. His love to you is infinite. How can you close your eyes and choose to be blind.

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