Suffering in the Name of Love (#140)
“But he was pierced for
our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He
was beaten so we could be whole. He was
whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep,
have strayed away. We have left God’s
paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us
all” (Isaiah 53: 5, 6).
...The language of sacrifice. Vicarious atonement. Christ the Saviour suffering on our behalf.
We are in the season where we meditate
on and remember the death and indeed resurrection of Jesus Christ; and this
noble deed of redemption.
So very often we forget the extent of
what Christ subjected Himself to so that we could be saved.
Those of us who have viewed The
Passion of the Christ have seen a graphic depiction of that suffering
and sacrifice.
Suffering and sacrifice are words we
would like to omit from the vocabulary of life.
We just don’t want to go there.
But Christ went there. All for us. All in the name of love.
©Kerina Hall
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