Bible Snack #73

​In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:10).
 
When I vicariously allow myself to experience what Jesus went through, I am always stunned. He paid for every sin to have ever been committed or ever will be. He took these sins right into His own body in order to cart them away and dump them in hell where they belong. Of course, all sin is propagated by Satan, but that doesn’t excuse us. Satan can’t do a thing without our participation. The old line of “the devil made me do it” just doesn’t hold water. We choose our sins.
 
Imagine becoming the murderer, the thieving tax collector, the batterer, the liar, the destroyer, and so on. Imagine every evil thing entering your body, especially after you’ve kept it so pristine! God loved us so much He subjected His Son to this hell. The Son loved us so much He subjected Himself to this hell. Imagine our own sins being placed in the body of Jesus, things we’ve never told anybody else. He took them all. He paid for them with His blood, with His death, burial, and resurrection.
 
The Bible says we went through all that with Him and we came out victorious, just like Him, and now we are seated in heavenly places with Him. Glory be to God!