Tuesday, April 9, 2013

On the Cross

An former devotion brought over to this blog ...



The compassion of Jesus is extraordinary.  The compassion that marked His life on the earth is the way He is now. It is not only that He sees and hears us, but He attends to us. As He died, we see this extraordinary compassion in Jesus, as He attends to the request from the condemned man on the nearby cross. 

Jesus was weakened to the point of death, emotionally and spiritually drained, isolated and abandoned with the sin of the world laid upon Him. Yet He responds to this condemned man of sin, in love with the gift of eternal life.  How can we ever doubt that Jesus will not see us, hear us or attend to us?
  
Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:42-43 NKJV).

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