Chaplain's Corner

Chappy has asked me to submit a spiritual article from time to time for your reading pleasure.  I generally almost write a sermon when I get started.  Most of you know that I am not a licensed minister....yet....but perhaps I will be before God takes me home.  I do a lot of layman ministering in our little country church, and where ever we go.  Doris is a big help to me with her staunch stand for Jesus Christ and what HE has done for us.  HE paid the ultimate price,  HIS life.....for you and I.   When HE died on the cross at Calvary.....HE gave it "all".

 

   Yes, HE gave it all so that we could have eternal life.   Most of us really don't comprehend the suffering,....the anguish.....the pain HE went through on that day.  HE was spat on, punched, kicked, and whipped severely.  (I need to explain the method used on HIM when they slashed HIM with the whip).  This was not the common bullwhip as we know about.  It was attached to a wooden handle, and had several strands of leather extending from it.  At the end of the leather strips were pieces of metal and sometimes broken glass tied within.   So when they struck Jesus on HIS body.....these pieces of jagged metal and broken glass would dig deep into the flesh and would rip open the flesh inflicting severe pain and bleeding.

 

   Yes,  HE sufferred and died for us......HE paid the ultimate price for you and I.  They not only stripped most of HIS clothing from him, but applied a crown of thorns to HIS head.   That wasn't good enough...so they pressed the crown of thorns deeper into HIS head....again causing extreme pain and bleeding.  These thorns were not just small, short stickers, they were long prongs of thorns and vines.  They wanted to cause injury and pain to our Lord.

 

   HE was mocked before and after the crucifixion.  Even while HE was on the cross they told HIM...."If you are truly the Son of God....come down off the cross".  They tried to give HIM vinegar to drink (which HE refused)....and while HE was on the cross, HE still demonstrated HIS forgiving nature.  HE asked for forgiveness to those that put HIM on the cross and said, "For they know not what they are doing".   He also told one of the others crucified along with HIM that he would join HIM in Paradise (Heaven).

 

   Our God is a loving God.   HE loves us unconditionally.  Jesus is the answer to Salvation.   The time is short, we observe what is written in the Holy Bible...nearly on a daily basis.  Wars are going on, blood is being spilled,....

we know not the day nor the hour when Jesus will come to claim HIS own.  Is your name writtend down in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven?

 

Tom Lewis