I'm sure you are as grateful as I am
for another public holiday season with today being Human Rights day.
I decided to spend the morning in bed with the kitties doing the
computer work I normally do on Sunday nights.
This year I volunteered to play a very
small part in setting up the 'Stations of the cross' display that
normally takes place every Easter at our church. As I was wrapping
the draping around the one metal cross on display I accidentally
grazed my forehead on the one metal spike...ouch!
This got me thinking about the crown of
thorns placed on Jesus head during His persecution. They were thick
and poisonous thorns and I'm sure as the poison ran into the veins in
His forehead, it must have swelled.
At that point in History there were no
“Human Rights” and there were no global treaties protecting
humanity and so torturers could do as they pleased and go unpunished.
Today thankfully those treaties do exist, although they are often
violated.
Jesus died to take the punishment for
our sins and restore to us our humanity, so let us be thankful for
His gift and continue to meditate on the work that the Cross of
Christ has accomplished.
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