A Daily Devotional

Look and see Him suffering upon the cross:

We avoid many circumstances in our life. We avoid pain and suffering. We avoid threats to our safety. We avoid eating the wrong kinds of food. We avoid painful and unpleasant thoughts. However, there is an event we must not avoid. We must not avoid looking at our Savior upon the Cross. No matter how painful Christ's suffering upon the cross might be for us to see, the cross was infinitely more painful for Christ to endure. In our quest to do our jobs, pay our bills, raise our families, meet our friends, do things upon things in life, we do not look upon Christ enough. We do not want to see Him hanging upon the tree. Even the thought of His suffering for us can rip our heart open and the searing pain comes into our heart. However, we must look upon His suffering and we must never forget. For if we quit looking upon His suffering, if we quit standing at His Cross, if we quit kneeling at His Cross, we will most certainly slide away into the tempting darkness. We cannot know the depths of the pain He bore. We cannot know many things about the day of Christ's death. However, we can know one thing. He died because our sin was upon Him and He took our sin upon Himself because He loved us. We must not look askance or avoid the horror of the cross in our mind, heart, and soul. If we look upon Christ suffering for us, our hearts are torn open, and His love pours in.

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