Devotion Corner

Luke 22:63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.

The guards that accompanied Jesus at His mock trial, showed the full rebellion of the human heart against the love of God. Stood before them was a man of true innocence, faultless in all His ways. He who had come to serve and not condemn. He who had come to heal the sick of both body and soul, they mocked and struck with all their might. This is the manner of the fallen heart. It blinds us to see what is standing right in front of us, the fullness of God as revealed in the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

If only those men had listened to the pure words of Jesus, and had gazed searchingly into His eyes, they would’ve seen the very love of God manifest in the flesh of man. If they had only held the face Christ with tender weeping of a repentant heart, and not struck Him in blindness of sin, they would’ve held the glories of Heaven in their hands.

Such is the manner of every sinner. We who once mocked the tender mercies of God with our love of sinful thoughts, words and deeds. We who once struck at the gentle face of Christ with the disregard of His call to know His peace. 

There is no mortal life that can comprehend such majesties of love as that of the Lord God towards sinners. How can He pursue after such repugnant lives when we have acted so wickedly against Him?! It is a love born of Heaven; held in the deepest reaches of the eternal heart of God. This is the only source capable of such a gracious and pure love. A love commended unto mankind by Christ Jesus at the cross.

Such is the goodness of God, that He gave His only begotten Son to provide a way to come into that precious love. We are invited to know it’s glory; it’s power; it’s truth and know that nothing can remove us from it, when we are sealed within it by the blood of Christ Jesus. 

There is no praiseworthy high enough to match the majesties of the love of God. Yet we must sing unrelentingly, and with the greatest volume of our hearts in thanksgiving forevermore, for that love secured for us, by our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen