Verse of the day: “By their wounds we have been healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
Pilate gave our Lord to the Roman officers to whip him; Roman flogging was one of the most terrible instruments of torture; it was made of beef tendon and had sharp bones interspersed in the tendon, so with each blow of the scourge, the small bones inflicted terrible cuts, tearing the victim’s flesh to the bone. No doubt our Savior was bound to the column and whipped in this way. He had already been wounded, but this flogging of Roman officers was probably the most serious of his plagues.
- To my soul.
- Look at this scene and cry in front of this wounded body.
- Believing in Jesus.
- Can you fix your eyes on Him.
- With tears.
- While He is before you.
- Reflecting the love that has endured so much agony?The Lord Jesus is as beautiful as the lily of innocence and red as the rose.
- In the crimson of his own blood.
- When we feel the true and blessed healing that their wounds have produced in us.
- Does our hearts not expand immediately with love and sorrow?we love the Lord Jesus.
- We must feel this affection grow in us now.
- We would be happy to go to our room and cry.
- But since our obligations do not allow it.
- We will first pray: “O beloved.
- Print the image of your own bloodied being on the chart of our hearts.
- Throughout this day.
- And when night comes.
- Will we return to communion with you and feel pain because our sins have cost you so much suffering?.
Look at what patient Jesus is, insulted, in a less dignified way!
Sinners have tied their hands all power and spat in the face of the benevolent Creator; their sienes, bruised by thorns, shed blood in abundance.
His back was whipped. But even the sharpest whips break your sweet heart.