The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 221


The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 221

Luke 23:26-37 – The King on a Cross
(Matt. 27:32–44; Mark 15:21–32; John 19:17–24 )
Now as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. “For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ “Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” “For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?” There were also two others, criminals, led with Him to be put to death. And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. And the people stood looking on. But even the rulers with them sneered, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.” The soldiers also mocked Him, coming and offering Him sour wine, and saying, “If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself.”

Jesus, the Christ of God/Messiah
 
The account of the death of the Messiah covered by all of the gospel writers cause our thoughts and emotions to rise or fall to peaks and depths that we do not like. In His death, Jesus Christ/Messiah we find ourselves mourning as much as we would mourn the loss of a child or parent. Even if folks are unbelieving, who are not yet children of God through faith in the gospel of God, feel the emotional tug of the heart as Jesus approaches the vicarious death for you and me. While reading the accounts in the gospels and even Psalm 22 we find ourselves weeping and mourning over the agony that only JESUS experienced.

His Righteousness, for my sin, causes my soul to cry out in praise and thanksgiving and in the moment when Jesus spoke His final words in human flesh. “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me!” And again “It is finished”.My soul turns from saddened state to the exalting praise that only the soul can express! Why! Because Jesus is RISEN.

Let me talk a little about the sour wine and gall that the soldiers offered to the LORD to drink! Could this have been a compassionate effort on the part of some of the soldiers, or was it common these men to do this to all crucified persons? It was a common act, the wine whether sour or not as some suggest that it was not sour, contained a substance called “gall” the substance in small doses acted as narcotic, dulling the brain and altering the mind, in larger doses gall became a poison. Gall is made from fungi that grow on plants and weeds and can even be mushrooms that we are warned today to not eat. Jesus paid the FULL penalty for the SIN of all the people of the world. God did not hold back! Today take the time to meditate on Jesus Christ, His Righteous replaces our unrighteousness when we agree with God that we are sinners in NEED of JESUS PROPITIATION work on the Cross of Calvary.
In sowing this up today, I would like to continue! But it is getting late in the day and I have a contractor working on the gutters of the house.

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