What Does Jesus' Death Have To Do With Me? (1)

What does the suffering and death of Jesus have to do with us?  It provides us with everything we need to deal with the injustice and sin that’s filled our lives.

Most of us realize that to some degree or another we have harmed others by our actions, our words, or our neglect.  Many of us persisted in harmful behaviour towards ourselves and others for months or years.   Only when our own pain was too great to carry did we seek help and look for a new way of life.  The death and resurrection of Jesus, which we celebrate at Easter is a reminder that He came to earth to forgive, heal, and restore.  In whatever ways we have experienced evil done to us or evil done by us, Jesus paid the price for our freedom from the penalty of those sins.  Jesus allowed sin and evil to be piled on him on the cross and thereby restored us to live in relationship with our Heavenly Father. The challenge is for us to believe and accept what He has done for us.

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:1-11 NLT) 

We can bundle up our pain, our brokenness, our hatred, our self-pity, our addictive behaviour, our sadness and sorrow and we can hand it over to Him.  When we give all our sadness and sorrow, hatred and self pity to Jesus, the suffering Saviour, we will receive peace and healing from him. 

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