Imagine being taken back in time, way, way back. You are walking beside Jesus, yet unseen by anyone as He carries the cross to “Golgotha.” You are seeing and hearing firsthand all the hatred toward our Savior. You can’t hold back the tears as they begin to seep from your eyes as you witness all the cruelty and dripping blood from His torn flesh. Watching Him struggle to carry that heavy cross. You understand the words being yelled and touted as Jesus is being mocked and ridiculed. You are helpless to do anything more than watch as the innocent Son of God is spat upon with disdain and disrespect.
You see the sign, smugly placed above His head, in laughter. “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
The spikes are then driven through His hands and feet, and you hear the heart-wrenching thud of the cross as it is stood up and dropped into place, tearing again at His hands and feet. Jesus is in agony, His flesh ragged and torn from beatings, bleeding, and scabbing. You listen intently to His every word. Then, just before He proclaims, “It is Finished,”
Jesus looks directly at you!
Tears in His eyes, and you hear Him say: I’m doing this for you!
- Will you love me? Will you, keep My commandments?
Today, God’s Word is at our fingertips. Shouldn’t we try our best to live according to God’s will? Through God’s wisdom, everything we need to know to keep the commandments of Jesus is found in the God-Breathed Words of the Holy Bible.
Let’s put our wisdom aside and pursue the Wisdom of our Creator. It’s not found in one verse or chapter; it’s found in the 66 inspired books God gave us!
“If you love me, keep my commands.”
John 14:15
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
(John 3:16)
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
1 Peter 3:21-22
- 2 Timothy 3:16
- Matthew 27:1-66
- Ephesians 5:15-21
- Isaiah 5:21
God First!
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