It was a shameful place where the Lord Jesus sacrificed... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

When Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit. Having said this, he breathed his last.
Luke 23:46.

It was a shameful place where the Lord Jesus sacrificed His life: on the cross between two criminals. People had taken Him there, yet He had gone voluntarily. They had wanted to kill Him more than once, but He had passed through their midst.

Now His hour had come. Of His own accord, He took our place in the judgment of God. He did not die like the criminals who breathed their last amid the cruel ill-treatment of the Roman soldiers. He had refused the stupefying drink offered Him, and now He yielded His life in His own power. His final cry testifies to this. He had rightly said, "No-one takes it (i.e. my life) from me, but I lay it down of myself" (John 10:18).

But that was not the only difference between His death and that of others. Apart from Him no-one was ever abandoned by God. He alone, the pure and holy One, was "made sin for us" (2 Corinthians 5:21) in the three hours of darkness. "The chastisement for our peace was upon him" (Isaiah 53:5). We cannot enter into the feelings of the dying Saviour when He cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). There the Lamb of God suffered to atone for our sins. Nothing was spared Him in judgment, until He cried out, "It is finished!"

There at the cross God's righteous demands were met. God the Father was glorified to perfection. And with what a price have we been redeemed! Let us never forget that!

Today's reading: Genesis 7:1-16 · 1 Peter 4:1-6