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He did not need to take up position, leaning over that way, but it was His choice. With each, horrendous lashing upon His back, bore every disease. "...And by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5 NKJV
He did not need to take up position, laying down upon that wooden cross, but it was His choice. With each blow of the mallet, drove each iron nail deeper and deeper within the palm of His hands and feet. The great amount of horrific, searing pain is unfathomable to me, but He endured it. Though He need not, He chose to. "But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;.." Isaiah 53:5 NIV
He did not need to take my place there, upon that ole rugged cross, but it was His choice. He took the place of a fallen humanity, which includes you and I so that we could be free. Free from sin that continues to entangle our hearts today. Through His death, He gave us life. Life eternal. "...the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,.." Isaiah 53:5 NIV And though we may fall, He continues to extend His unconditional Love, Mercy, and Grace to you and to me. Today and for all the days to come. Until we are Home.
"For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life." ~ John 3:16 AMP
