I am reading through Mark and finishing it up today. I came to the passage in Chapter 15 where it speaks of Jesus being mocked, spit on and beat with reeds as He is clothed with a purple cloak.
Mark 15:16-20 -
And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
As i read it this morning, it reminded me more and more of the cost of our sin. So many times we like to think our sin is "not so bad" or we even have our "Respectable Sins" as Jerry Bridges put it. The problem is, no sin is respectable and the cost of our sin is the beating, the humiliating and death of the God of this universe, God the Son, Jesus Christ.
As we look at our lives, may we look over this passage, look over the Gospel, and be killing our sin. The price was paid for all who believe. Jesus paid it all, we who believe are dressed in the Righteousness of Christ because of the cross and the Gospel. Yet, may we ALWAYS remember the weight of our sin. This was our King, our Lord, our Savior that was beat, spit upon, mocked and killed for our sins. May we hate sin, HATE SIN and KILL SIN, lest it be killing us.
Jesus is worthy!
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