Jesus died for the guilty. This is a fact.
I’m guilty, is another fact.
Every living human being on this planet is guilty. Go ahead and blame Adam and Eve, but we would have done the same thing if we were them.
We’re naturally rebellious. We all struggle with temptation and curiosity. Doesn’t the wisdom of the world always sound like it makes more sense than God’s Word?
Science and scholars convince themselves (and everyone else) that the Bible is only mythology and fables.
But, what we believe doesn’t change who God is, His story, or His Word.
The Bible tells us that Jesus died for liars.
He died for haters.
He died for adulterers and murderers.
Jesus faced nails hammered into His hands, the agony, ridicule, and shame of the cross for the hopeless.
I wonder if our denying Him hurts more than all His scars put together? The spit, the tearing out of His beard. The harsh words, the cruel behavior, the flogging, the whipping.
He didn’t say, “Forget it Father, these people aren’t worth dying for.”
Instead, when it was all said and done, moments before dying, Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing . . . ” Luke 23:34.
Who can do this?
Jesus.
The human race is born spiritually blind and mute. Faith is the eye opener.
Do you know Jesus? Let an old hymn unlock Faith’s door:
I hear the Savior say,
Thy strength indeed is small,
child of weakness
Watch and Pray-
find in Me – thine all in all.
Jesus paid it all,
all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow!
He washed our stain of sin, white as snow. That’s why we make a big deal about Jesus. His power changes us when we ask forgiveness and believe in His name.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.
A heart of stone made soft? Change from the inside out?
That’s what Jesus does. And He humbles us of pride:
For nothing good have I
Where-by Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.
Nothing good on my part, save believing on all He has done.
Jesus paid it all. He suffers long and waits. And when we receive Him, life everlasting is ours for the taking:
And when, before the throne,
I stand in Him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
My lips shall still repeat.
“Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.”