Friday I was trimming our rose bushes and at one point a thorn went deep into the flesh of a finger. I gently removed the thorn and went on trimming but the tenderness continued for a couple of days.
I remembered that Jesus had been given a crown of thorns so I looked up the passage (Matthew 27:27-31). When Jesus had been sentenced to death the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They then took a staff and struck him on the head again and again.
Can you imagine the agony of those long thorns piercing his flesh not once but again and again as they were driven deeper by the relentless hammering of the staff.
This was only one of the terrible acts precipitated upon Jesus, the worst, of course was his actual death by crucifixion.
It makes one random thorn in my flesh seem pretty benign.
Thank you Jesus for sacrificing your life to reconcile me to God and enduring what should have been my fate.
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