Seeing His Sacrifice

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Treasures Hidden in a Field that a Man Went And Sold All He Had, To Buy!!

Going to Pilate he asked for Jesus’s body and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Matthew 27: 58

Normally when I read— I don’t know if it was numbness, or hindsight or just the fact that I have heard about Jesus dying since I was little—it doesn’t hit me so hard.
But for whatever reason the morning I read this, this horror took over me.

I thought about how Pilate gave Jesus over to death because a crowd shouted.
He was not only innocent, but spent all His time healing and helping and feeding people.
And since this was so long ago, so often the horror doesn’t hit me about what happened.

But it’s like God gave me a moment, of the sorrow Joseph of Arimathea must have felt retrieving His lifeless body.

And it hit me for just a moment, this great sorrow of seeing Him like that, like Joseph must have had.
The hurt and the anger at those around him for doing this, allowing this.
The despair of having seen someone so beautiful harmed.
Those around him, like Pilate, not really knowing how precious life is.
Having to live under the rule of those where life was so easily taken away.

I have learned how precious life is.
And yet I know I can get desensitized to what Jesus did, because of all we hear on the news or how frequently, I have read and accepted this truth.

But I was grateful that God gave me a moment of horror, reading this going, how can this be.
People screaming, and so He was killed.
His life taken.
Almost like I had a moment of seeing His lifeless body.

Now I know He is God.
I know that all throughout the scriptures, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, the Prophets, etc, we see that He was planning to do this, give up His life.
I know that He took up His life again.
I know that He is seated on His throne.

But I’ve tried to make a conscious effort lately, since this moment, to really think about it, to really try to imagine, feel, empathize at least with those around him watching it happen.
That I would increase my level of gratitude to Him.
Which increases my love for Him.
And my humility towards Him and others that have suffered so in this life.

May we know that we know that we know, really know, what Jesus gave up and went through for us.

May we know that we know that we know, as we know it better, it will only increase the love we have inside for Him and for others.

May we know that we know that we know, this will only increase our joy, our motivation, in going to tell others about Him, that they see Him, what He did for them and receive His love, for all time.

love kathlynn