“Wasn’t That Enough?”
Mark 14:41
Jesus and the eleven Disciples went into the Garden, the disciples puzzled at what Jesus had just told them. But Jesus had one thought on His mind, the cross. It is said here that He fell on the ground and prayed, He prayed for us, and His sweat became as great drops of blood. Oh the agony that He must have suffered, for you and me and all the world; wasn’t that enough? Then Judas came with the soldiers to take Him away, we see Him now before Pilate as they strip Him of His clothes, they crown Him with thorns, beat on His head, and plucked His beard (let me say rather ripped out His beard). And His blood ran down His precious face and body and splattered on the floor, wasn’t that enough? The Psalmist said, “they plowed His back,” made furrows in it, all the way to the bone. His flesh was torn beyond recognition; Internal injuries no doubt, as the blood and body fluids oozed out, someone in the crowd might say, Isn’t that enough? We see Him now at Calvary, laying on the cross, the smiters with hammer and nails in hand, driving them through His hands and feet, raising the cross to drop with a thud into the socket of stone, Oh, wasn’t that enough? He raises His voice as the Father turns His back on Him, because God could never look on sin with pleasure, Jesus cries out; “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me.” He hung His head and said, “it is finished,” and darkness fell on the lightest part of the day, lightening flashed! Thunder rolled! An earthquake rent the earth. Graves burst open; the dead were alive again! The priests behind the veil were suddenly put out of business.
When He gave up the Ghost, and said, “it is finished,” He was saying: The blood is enough!
“That’s Enough”
Though life is hard and living clean is rough, Still give it all to Jesus,
there’s surely blood enough.
Some will mock, and some will scorn, that His way is just too tough,
But Jesus promised when He died, He’d make a place with room enough.
-Tom Milam
Daily Jewel:
“He hung His head and said, “it is finished.”
Bible Reading Schedule: Judges 1-2
Weekly Memory Verses: Romans 5:1-5
Romans 5:1-5 ~ 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. KJV
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