Day 306

Matthew 26:57-27:10; Mark 14:53-15:1; Luke 22:54-71; John 18:25-27.  “Undeserved”

         The scenes displaying the hours of Jesus’ trials and beatings leading up to the crucifixion in “The Passion of the Christ” movie tore at my heart.  I wept, feeling that it just wasn’t fair.  He shouldn’t have had to go through what He did.  The religious leaders who hated Jesus so strongly found people to lie about Him, but they couldn’t even agree with one another.  Instead of throwing it out of court it just escalated into a greater fiasco.  People spit on Him and blindfolded Him and beat Him in the face.  Our next two day’s readings will expound on more of His suffering as it led up to His crucifixion.
         The opposition could not have been stronger, and no one could have been less deserving.  The fact that He did not deserve what He went through is the very foundation of the Gospel message.  Faultless Jesus went to the cross for our faults.  He didn’t deserve it and He could have avoided it, but He did it for us who needed to make atonement so crucially.

General Questions for each day:
Summarize the day’s Bible passage in your own words.
What thoughts, actions, attitudes or beliefs are addressed in the passage?
How is the Holy Spirit leading you to apply this passage to your life today?