This was something that I wrote a while ago and I am looking for comments, whether they be you disagreeing with me, or pointing out grammar mistakes, please comment. Also, please keep in mind while you read this that I wrote it some time ago.
No Christian wants to be disobey God’s Word, but obedience is only one reason to avoid sin. Compassion is another, much stronger, motivation. That’s right — compassion. If you think about it, God tells us in His Holy Word that each and every single tiny sin is worthy of a horrifying death at the hands of God’s wrath. Now, remembering that, ask yourself these things:
1. Are you committing any sins at the time of you reading this? Any at all, think about it?
2. How many sins have you committed within a second ago, a minute ago, an hour ago, a day ago, a week ago a month ago, a year ago? Probably an uncountable amount, right?
3. So, still thinking about my previous point, ask yourself how many sins have you committed your entire life, and how many will you commit by the time of your death?
Still remembering that, remember this, each and every one of those tiny sins deserves a horrible death at the hands of God’s wrath.
Jesus died in his human body on the Cross, that’s a fact. It is also a fact that he did it to save us all from our sins; remember that ‘from’ part. The way Jesus did this was by in the sight of God The Father taking every bit of the blame for every single sin ever committed and every single sin ever to be committed.
Remember how many sins you committed and how it was a near infinite number? And how in the sight of God each and every sin is worthy of a horrible death in the hands of an angry and wrathful God?
Now take all your sins, your horrible death penalties, and put all those horrible deaths on Jesus. And multiply that by the amount of people ever to have lived and all the people ever to live in the future, which is probably a total numbering in the trillions, and put it all on the back of Jesus.
Every time you sin you reach into the past and ‘kill’ Jesus horribly one more time,
Now you know why I said that that compassion is a very strong motivation to obey God’s Word.
And I implore you, next time you are about to sin and your conscience butts in and tells you not to do it, listen to it. And after you do sin, ask God to forgive you for the horrible thing that you have committed.
And as to why Someone would take on such a horrific and painful, punishment? Because of the same reason why we should stop before sinning, compassion. God said that for every, single, sin we have, are, or will commit, the punishment, is death.
He also said that he would allow only one thing to take the place of us when punishment finally does come.
And that one thing, that one scapegoat, is Jesus.
God said that only a perfect being, a sinless and blemish less person, could take that punishment.
And that one perfect being, that one perfect scapegoat, Jesus, is the only one who could take that punishment.
And as to why he would take on such a horrible punishment? Because He loved us, he showed compassion on us.
As the only thing, the only person, between us and eternal death in Hell, he did what he could to save us, he died. On the cross. He died in not only a physically horrible way, but a spiritually horrible way.
Jesus’s death, is the only time in the entire history of the universe, where God left somebody. God is always watching over everybody, always controlling everything, always loving everybody. But at Jesus’s death, he truly and completely left Jesus!
Nobody could even begin to imagine the horror and mental, and spiritual pain, besides the physical pain of God completely leaving somebody, let alone His only Son!
And Jesus endured all that, to save us. Us, sinners. Those who are worthy of eternal death in Hell.
So, show some compassion! For somebody who endured the most suffering of any time in history!