At Calvary
“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.” (Luke 23:33)
Today’s Morsel: Throughout the teaching of His disciples, Jesus kept pointing them to the day that He would be crucified. And they, like most people, didn’t want to hear it. Even Peter rebuked Jesus when Jesus told Him that He would be crucified. The two disciples on the road to Emmaus, after His resurrection, told Jesus when He inquired the reason for their sadness: “And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.” (Luke 24:19-21) When we don’t pay close attention to the words of God, we can miss Jesus’ teaching and meaning. Jesus had to suffer and die to fulfill Isaiah’s prophesy: “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.” (Isaiah 53:3-8) Calvary was not to be a sad day, it was to be a glorious day. It was to be a day for giving us newness of life. As the writer of Hebrews tells us:“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22) I thank God for the blood.
Sing: Years I spent in vanity and pride caring not my Lord was crucified, knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary. Mercy there was great, and grace was free; Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty, at Calvary.
Thought For Today: “He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:11)
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