“A Time To Die”
Psalm 22:13-20
This Psalms portrays Jesus as the Good Shepherd that laid down His life for the sheep. If we key on verse fourteen for a little while, we’ll see the saddest, most heart wrenching scene, recorded in God’s Word. The Soul and body of our Saviour, so weak that He was likened to water poured out upon the ground. When they dropped the cross into its socket, it fell with an agonizing thud, as it jerked His bones out of joint; Every tendon, ligament, muscle ending, and nerve pulled and pained. A man like me would have fainted by now, but His love for us overpowered the pain and suffering He endured, it wasn’t time yet to die.
He could not relax, as He was burdened so, with the weight of His own body; the strain must have been beyond comprehension and imagination, as He hung there, during the longest minutes and hours of His life. No doubt the weakness was so overpowering that His agonizing consciousness brought Him to concentrate on the misery so much, that He was sick unto death, but yet He could not die, it was not time yet.
The very wrath of God was upon Him, for your sins and mine, the whole world of sin, brought on the agony of soul for the Savior. God must punish sin, and we would have to stand for ourselves, had it not been for a willing sacrifice, Jesus our redeemer. We, in our state, could not have endured such pain and agony of body and soul; we would have cried out in delirious screams and begged to faint into unconsciousness: We therefore could never be our own Saviour. He took all of the mockery, the shame, the wounds, the thorns, the nails and the final sword of judgement came down upon Him. It was time to die! He said to his Father, “I have done all that thou hast bid me to do.” He bowed His head and said, “It is finished,” the plan of redemption is complete.
“Rest”
As we approach the throne of Grace,
Let’s be reminded how we got it.
The bitter cup of death He drank,
That we could rest in His Spirit.
~ Tom Milam
Daily Jewel:
“The very wrath of God was upon Him, for your sins and mine.”
Bible Reading Schedule: 2 Samuel 1-2
Weekly Memory Verses: Luke 23:33-37 ~ 33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. 35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. 36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, 37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
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