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Morning, March 31 Scripture: “With his stripes we are healed.”(Isaiah 53:5) Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that every […] Morning, March 30 Scripture: “He was numbered with the transgressors.”(Isaiah 53:12) Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character he could the better become their advocate. In some trials there is an identification of the counsellor with the client, […] Morning, March 29 Scripture: “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”(Hebrews 5:8) We are told that the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering, therefore we who are sinful, and who are far from being perfect, must not wonder if we are called to […] Morning, March 28 Scripture: “The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.”(Ephesians 3:19) The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, his unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, […] Morning, March 27 Scripture: “Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.”(Matthew 26:56) He never deserted them, but they in cowardly fear of their lives, fled from him in the very beginning of his sufferings. This is but one instructive instance of the frailty of all believers if left to themselves; they are but […] |
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