What an amazing Savior we have!
He had the power to cancel the whole thing, or at the
very least greatly diminish His pain and suffering.
* Just a couple of comments to Pilot’s questions would
have had Him released; Pilot was already desperately looking for a reason to
let Him go. Herod just needed to see a little miracle.
* He could have greatly reduced the pain and agony
inflicted by the Roman scourges and mockers by removing the demonic influence that
had taken them over at that moment; He had done so for others so many times in
the past, two thousand were sent into pigs just a few months ago.
* He could have endowed Himself with the same strength He
gave Samson when he carried the city gates on his shoulders to the top of a
hill; but He choose to stumble and fall under the weight of our cross.
* He could have taken the wine mixed with gall to deaden
the pain; or at the very least changed it into something that tasted better; He
had done that with water at a wedding just three years prior.
*He could have stopped His terrible bleeding with a word;
just a touch of His robe stopped a life time of bleeding just a week ago.
*The ground could have opened up and swallowed those
standing around the cross jeering and mocking like in the days of Cora, Dathan and
Abirum; but He let it happen a ways away
only to let some who had died, resurrect and pave the way for a great revival
fifty three days from then.
* He could have asked the Father to speak to the crowd
and say to them the same thing He said when He was baptized. He could have
summoned the same host of angels to give His death the same glorious end as
they did in announcing His glorious birth.
* Like the song says; “He could have called ten thousand
angles to destroy the world and set Him free; but He died alone for you and
me”.
Blessings to you on this glorious Easter Sunday; a day
that speaks “Well done my Son, Arise!”
The
Niemeyer’s
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