There is not one thing you and I can go through in this life that Jesus did not experience either. As a Human, our Savior felt every pain, every heartache, every offense and every torment, much deeper than you and I ever have to experience it. As we said yesterday, He even felt the separation from His Deity, something that we may never quite understand this side of Heaven. The suffering He endured for us, we cannot imagine. Listen:
“After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’” Jn 19:28 ESV
I thirst. Note that Jesus says this not only because He needs a drink of water, but because He is still fulfilling all Scripture! This God Man was still focused on His mission. He still wanted to make sure He satisfied all the requirements in God’s Written Word. You see, all that Jesus did and suffered, as well as the victory He accomplished, were written long ago, throughout Time, in Scripture. Jesus knew all that was to happen because He is the Word Incarnate and so He followed it to the end…and back again, praise God! Do we view the priceless worth of the Bible this way? Do we allow it to lead us, to be the basis of all our decisions, to renew our minds and help us fulfill the last command of Jesus, to love one another the way He loves us? Something to think about on this very Good Friday, huh?
Join me in memorizing 52 verses this year:
January: 1- Jn 3:16; 2- 2Co 5:17; 3- Jas 2:26; 4- Eph 2:10
February: 5- Jn 10:10; 6- Ro 6:23; 7- Rev 21:4; 8- Php 4:13
March: 9- 1Pe 5:7; 10- Jn 8:32; 11- Dt 30:19; 12- Jn 3:30; 13- 2Chron 20:3
April: 14- 2Chron 20:12
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Holy Week break: Lk 23:34; Lk 23:43; Jn 19:26; Mt 27:26; Jn 19:28
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<>< Peace, Diane
