Who could possibly deserve our life-long, soul-felt thanks more than the One who laid His life down in abject sacrifice for worms such as us...?
"He was despised, rejected, and like one from whom men hide their face... He was despised and we esteemed Him not..."
"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!"
The greater one's sense of sin, the holiness and wrath of holy God, and the eternality of sin's punishment, the greater the gratitude for Jesus' sacrifice.
Astonishing is the inexplicable love that He would show toward hardened enemies, intent in rebellion, shaking tiny fists in the face of almighty God.
Some are dismayed that He has not elected all for salvation... I am amazed that He set His heart upon any!
So much of the blame-shifting of man, in faulting God for his lostness, stems from underestimating the heinousness of sin in the light of God's holiness. We are so comfortable with sin, so accustomed to its velvet vice-grip, its subtle strangulation, we easily forget His perfect righteousness.
At the foot of the cross, we again see what our sin cost the Son of God... and sense afresh the awesome holiness of the living God.
Thank You, Lord Jesus. Thank You, Thank You, blessed Lord, for doing what we could never have done for ourselves, being dead in our transgression and sin. Praise to your Name for such condescension, such compassion, such submission to Your Father's will.
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May God continue to reveal the sin of His people, to His people.
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