They Led Him Away To Be Crucified

Thank heavens Jesus doesn't need our pity I've got too much of my own I am dealing with.

Yet it is time to start looking at the cross and what was done there for what it is...a way out. 

Not only the ability to leave my own pity party but to draw close to the Healer, the Savior, the Great I Am. 

There has never been a more important time for me to lean on the cross than this day and in the days ahead. The world has gone mad and is looking for a reason to hope.

May we be that very hope and lead them to the cross of their salvation.

God Bless.

Mornings With God: March 29 Matt 27:31 - They... led Him away to crucify Him.

Mornings With God

When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. — Matt 27:31 NET

Never was there such another procession as that which went along the Via Dolorosa that Good Friday morning. Jesus died that day for us.

“Under an eastern sky,
Amid a rabble cry,
A man went forth to die – For me.
“Thorn–crowned His blessed head,
Blood–stained His every tread,
Cross–laden, on He sped – For me.”

There was human pity at the cross; medicated wine was offered the Sufferer by gentle hands. But He refused to take the stupefying draught. He would not lessen in the smallest degree his pain as the world’s Redeemer, and He would not enter the great mystery of death with faculties dulled.

Terrible as were the sufferings of Christ on His cross, we think of Him not with pity, but with adoration. What we see is the Lamb of God bearing the sin of the world.

 Source: Mornings With God - http://www.youdevotion.com/mornings/march/29