It Was Love
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15: 13 KJV)
It was love that kept Jesus on the cross for us. He could have come down from
the cross. All the nails and all the soldiers in the world couldn’t have kept
Jesus on the cross if He had wanted to come down from that cross. However, He
loves us so much that He willingly stayed on that cross of horror and torture
and died for our sins. He paid the debt for us that we could never have paid.
Every time they pounded a nail into his hands, I believe that He felt that nail
being pounded into His heart. It wasn’t the nails and the physical pain that
killed Jesus.
I believe with all of my heart that our precious Saviour died of a broken heart
because He had been rejected, criticized, scorned, abused and left alone to die.
When we are hurting and there is nobody around to comfort us, we can go to
Jesus. When Jesus was hanging on that cross, He was totally alone. Not even His
Father could help Him. Our Heavenly Father is a Holy God and He can’t look on
sin so He had to turn away from His beloved Son because Jesus had taken our sins
on Him.
What kind of love is this that Jesus would willingly die for us when He had
never done anything wrong? This is an amazing, compassionate, giving and
unconditional love that comes from the hearts of our Heavenly Father and our
precious Saviour. When satan hurls his vicious poisonous darts at us, we should
love Jesus so much that we will keep on serving Him no matter how many darts
satan hurls at us. Remember, the level of our service to Jesus depends on our
level of love for Him. How much do you love Him and how much are you doing for
Him?
Joanne Lowe
June 10, 2009
joannelowe8@cox.net
www.hesetmefreeforever.blogspot.com