Today's Passage: Mark 15

In Mark chapter 15 we read the account of Jesus' death and burial.  Because Jesus lived a life without sin, it might be easy to assume He was somehow not fully human because He is also God.... like it might somehow have been easier for Him to live a human life?

Sin separates us from God.  Jesus never knew what that separation was until He took on the sins of the world at the cross.  In Mark 15:34 He cries out in the ninth hour, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"  God the Father cannot look upon sin as it is in opposition to His character and nature.  While Jesus grew up as a human and understood what it was like to live as we live, it was not until that moment He truly could understand our plight as sinners.  At that moment, He "walked in our shoes."

It is all the more humbling when we understand that He did not deserve to bear that burden or experience that abandonment of the Father, yet He volunteered to do it so that we might never have to be separated from His presence ever again.

If you have never accepted Him as your savior, pray and ask Him to come into your heart.  He has already paid the price for your sin; you do not have to remain separated from His joyful peace and eternal life.