the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Yea, he loved the people. Deuteronomy 33:3. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression? Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Micah 7:18-19. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53:10-11.
The most incomprehensible and adorable wonder of all wonders is the love of God in Christ, to which we should ever come back, at which we each day should stop, and which should each day become new to us. Even Moses exclaimed, "The Lord loveth His people, who have by no means deserved it. " He knew the stiff-necked people and saw how highly God loved them. But if Moses had also seen the Son of God hanging on the cross, wounded and bloody, bruised, tortured, yea, as it were, crushed by God Himself, what would he have thought and felt? It jars on the refined and sensitive ears of our contemporaries when Scripture says that the Lord has stricken and tortured His Son. But I can not help them. To me it seems delightful, however unfathomable, that God bruised the Righteous One for those who were unrighteous, and not only afflicted Him, but that He should justify many, that He might see of the travail of His soul, that He might be satisfied, that He might be given a portion among the great, that we might all become His. God brought such a great sacrifice that He treated Him who was most pleasing to Him, in wrath, in order to win those who hated Him and who had deserved His wrath, and to deliver them from judgment and wrath. Let us not try to fathom this wonder of love; for we are unable to do it; but let us enjoy it, which we may by the grace of God.
Mark the sacrifice appointed!
See who bears the awful load;
’Tis the Word, the Lord’s Anointed,
Son of Man and Son of God.
Here we have a firm foundation;
Here the refuge of the lost;
Christ’s the Rock of our salvation:
His the name of which we boast.
