Passing By The Cross

-May 29, 2022-

Good morning, happy Lord’s Day,

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which has been brought on me, which the Lord has inflicted in the day of His fierce anger.”

(Lamentations 1:12).

This verse was written by the prophet Jeremiah hundreds of years before the crucifixion of Christ. It is a Messianic prophecy of the suffering of our Savior, Jesus Christ. There were many people who came to Calvary to witness the crucifixion. There was the Roman centurion, the Roman soldiers, some of the Jewish Sanhedrin, the disciples, and the women who followed Jesus. Some believed in Him, others did not.

For the ones who passed by, what did they see? They saw His long, painful death on the cross. They heard Him speak to the Father, to Mary His mother, to John, and to the repentant thief who hung on a cross next to Him. Worse than the physical pain He suffered, He bore our sins and the wrath of God against sin.

In Isaiah 53:3 says, “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.” He was all alone at the cross and the Father turned His back on Him because He paid the price of our sin. We can barely understand His physical pain, but we can never fathom the depth of His suffering spiritually. The Man of sorrows bore our sorrow.

Thank God we passed by the cross and like the thief on the cross believed in Him and were saved. The hymn writer wrote, “ Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? O! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? All of us were there in the sense that our sins were laid on Him. He paid our sin debt in full. Let us come and worship Him today!

Have a blessed Lord’s Day pondering what He did for us at the cross. Stay safe and healthy.

In Calvary’s bonds,

Dean