BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 20
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we
might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 CO R I N T H I A N S 5 : 2 1
The spiritual suffering Jesus endured on the
cross is not as easily recognizable as His physical and
emotional suffering, but it was by far the worst suffering
of all. We first glimpse it when Jesus was stripped of
His robe and left to hang virtually naked before the
world. The emotional shame and humiliation would have
been acute for any dignified Jewish rabbi. Yet it wouldn’t
even have warranted an honorable mention alongside the
spiritual humiliation He endured as He was spiritually
stripped of His robe of righteousness in God’s eyes.
Christ didn’t just take our sins upon Himself, He
became those sins for us. Imagine how dirty and vile and
evil and guilty and ashamed Jesus must have felt as He
hung there before a holy God with our sins exposed as
though they were His! Would you thank Him for bearing
your sin—so that you can wear His righteousness?
A N N E G R A H A M L O T Z
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