At the end of a hectic week, it's hard to focus, but there is no moment more worthy of focus than this. Today we remember the day when death was infiltrated. On Sunday we will remember the day that it was shattered from the inside. Today the gate of death has closed on more than it can hold, and on Sunday Life will explode out of death and turn that gate into nothing more than an empty archway. Is anything too difficult for God?
No, and when he does something, he does it thoroughly. Look at our salvation, designed so that He would not only carry our sins but also carry our sorrows. Every possible humiliation and pain in the experience of mankind was heaped on Jesus:rejection by family, betrayal by friends, mockery from the establishment, unjust condemnation from the government, beating, torture, death, misunderstanding, grief, depravation, anything that we could possibly suffer, he bore. He took it into the grave with him and made it part of that archway of death that leads to eternal life. Some of his pain we inflicted, and some of his pain was inflicted on us, but the LORD laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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