“Glory To Shame”
John 1:11, 12; Psalm 4:2
The people of Israel cried for a king, but when He came, they rejected Him. They were blinded and held a hard heart toward Jesus because He didn’t come to them as the type of worldly king, they thought they wanted. Here is the man Jesus, offering Himself to rejectors, willingly bearing the cross of shame, the crowd shouting obscenities; Ridicule in place of praise, disrespect in place of honor due; His award was a crown of thorns and taunts from the onlookers as the whip ploughs his back; And the crowd makes cruel acclamations such as: Here is your triumphant king, disabled and powerless! They yet did not understand that He was suffering and dying for their very souls.
They should have bowed to Him and honored Him as a special guest, and served Him the best drink, but they offered Him a distasteful bitter drug instead. Vinegar and gall to a thirsty man added more to the pleasure of their mockery, as they thrust it upon His parched lips (John 19:28). Had He been the son of a prominent political figure or an earthly king (as they wanted), they would have treated Him royally, but not the King of Glory, not God’s Son who came to save our wretched souls, no honor to Him, no hospitality to such an imposter, as they called Him. An earthly king they would have had the honor guard to display their brilliant formations and bodyguards on every corner, but the guards He had gambled for His garments, further mockery and humiliation. He sat not on a throne of honor, but hung on a tree of disgrace, as a common criminal, now we full well know what the world thought of God and His Son, not just in expression and thought, but in the full workings of degradation, repulsive and blind reality.
“The King Of Glory”
He was the King of Glory,
hanging as the king of thieves,
To the pleasure of their mocking,
no diadem He receives.
A crown of thorns is His treasure,
while hanging on the cruel tree,
Oh the pain and shame He suffered,
while dying there for you and me.
~ Tom Milam
Daily Jewel:
“He sat not on a throne of honor, but hung on a tree of disgrace, as a common criminal.”
Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Samuel 19-21
Weekly Memory Verses: Hebrews 4:9-13 ~ 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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