"For He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 20)
Christ, who deserves the highest honor and praise, who is the best and worthiest of all, was defamed, mistreated, utterly despised and made nothing on the cross. He did this all for us! We had the weight of shame and guilt from our sins on us, and He took all that into Himself and when He was made nought, all that shame and regret, all that sin and corruption, was made nought and dissolved away. He bore our sin on the cross and was made nothing in death, bringing down our sin into the grave and leaving it there, no longer to plague us! He did this for us, so we could feel clean and free from our sin, pure and right, with a clean conscience. Everything we have seen as negative about ourselves He has taken away into death and made nought. It is all gone. It is nothing. It not longer plagues us. All the shame, guilt, punishment, corruption, and death, all the sin and all the effects of sin, are dealt with by Christ at the cross as He is made nothing and makes all that evil and its effects nothing, too! What a wonderful Savior! He deserves the highest honor and praise forever!
"Jesus Christ who is fully God, becomes fully man to the extent of willingly dying humanity’s death at the hands of his own creation. He embraced the curse and shame of the lowest kind in dying a criminal’s death. From this place of utter humiliation, God exalted him to the highest rank. God graced Jesus with a Name that is far above every other name."
Philippians 2:7-9 (MIRROR)
A Prayer: Thank You, dear Jesus, for being so vulnerable and kind and showing such self-giving love, that You would die for us and take all our sins away. You deserve all the love and praise we have to give!