“He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.” ~1 Peter 2:24
Think about that for a moment…
We have no idea what it is to feel someone else’s pain or suffering. We can compare how we have felt with what someone else may be feeling, but to truly experience it, we cannot. When our children or loved ones hurt or suffer, we wish we could take that pain on ourselves, removing the suffering from them. That is a desire out of love. But Jesus had the power to do just that. He purposefully chose to take on all the pain and suffering we would face before a perfect and just God. The physical beatings, the nails through His hands, the dehydration on the cross – He suffered all those things for you and for me, and yet they were nothing compared to the spiritual anguish He suffered as the punishment for every sin that ever was and would be; the sins of those living and those yet to be born, was crushed upon Him.
Why? Because He loves you. He. Loves. You. He wants to be in your life today. He wants you to have a relationship with Him so that you will live forever with Him. Because He took the punishment for your sins and mine, we can live with Him for all eternity. We just need to believe it and receive that grace He so lovingly gives to us day after day. There is nothing you can do or have ever done that has not been washed clean by Jesus’ great act of love on the cross. If you were the only person who ever lived, He would have still gone to that cross. That is how significant you are to Him. That is how much you are loved.
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