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Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a
most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and
sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that
every time the lash came down these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration,
and tore off the flesh from the bone. The Saviour was, no doubt, bound to the
column, and thus beaten. He had been beaten before; but this of the Roman
lictors was probably the most severe of his flagellations. My soul, stand here
and weep over his poor stricken body.
Believer in Jesus, can you gaze upon him without tears, as he stands before you
the mirror of agonizing love? He is at once fair as the lily for innocence, and
red as the rose with the crimson of his own blood. As we feel the sure and
blessed healing which his stripes have wrought in us, does not our heart melt at
once with love and grief? If ever we have loved our Lord Jesus, surely we must
feel that affection glowing now within our bosoms.
"See how the patient Jesus stands, Insulted in his lowest case! Sinners have
bound the Almighty's hands, And spit in their Creator's face.
With thorns his temples gor'd and gash'd Send streams of blood from every part;
His back's with knotted scourges lash'd. But sharper scourges tear his heart."
We would fain go to our chambers and weep; but since our business calls us away,
we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of his bleeding self upon the
tablets of our hearts all the day, and at nightfall we will return to commune
with him, and sorrow that our sin should have cost him so dear.
"With his stripes we are healed." - Isaiah 53:5
See Also:
Daily Devotional: Today With Jesus
Daily Devotional: My Utmost for His Highest
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