The life of Jesus could be
summed up as an expression of unconditional love. He chose to die. He wasn’t cajoled
into it. It was the highest height of love ever displayed in human history and
after which none is incomparable. Jesus is the only One who laid down His life
and was able to take it up. Anyone can choose to die in place of another but
only Jesus can lay down His life and take it up again in resurrection. The
Bible says that without the shedding of the blood, there is no remission of
sin. Jesus knew this long before it was written in the Holy Book. Hence, He
chose to drink the cup of God’s fury against the wickedness and filthiness of
man, to appease the heart of God towards man.
Jesus had been dining and
wining with His Disciples before His crucifixion. Long before He came to the
world and even few hours to His crucifixion, He knew He had to drink the
ultimate cup. When a man’s cup of iniquity becomes full due to his heedless
stand to align himself with the ordinance of God, the wrath of God will
certainly visit him. However, by virtue of Jesus drinking the ultimate cup of
God’s wrath, we gained divine identity and membership of the household of faith
and also citizenship in heaven, all because Jesus paid it all.
Know that anyone who
despises the gift of salvation while living a sinful life is only doing him or
herself a disservice. Such fellow will have to drink the cup of God’s wrath
because he chooses to despise the redemptive work, which Jesus wrought on the
Cross. You never can tell when the cup of your iniquity becomes full if you
keep living at variance with God’s word.
If you will repent today and
acknowledge that Jesus drank the cup of God’s wrath for your sin, so your sins could be
blotted out and that you might be clothed in white, as a symbol of
righteousness, your life will certainly bring sweet fragrance to God and not trigger
His vengeance for your disobedience. May the cup which Jesus drank for the
redemption of humanity not be poured upon your life in expression of God’s
wrath against you, even as you choose to align your ways with God today, in
Jesus name
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