The Gift - Part 3
December 15, 2024 • 1 Timothy 6:15
No one ever imagined that a King
would forgive a woman caught in the very act of adultery
when the law said she should be stoned.
No one imagined a King like Jesus
Who overturned tables when people misused his temple
They never imagined the King of the Jews
riding into Jerusalem on a donkey.
And those who would be cheering for his arrival
would be the outcasts, the overlooked,
and even the immoral ones.
No one expected a King to stand trial for crimes
that he did not commit.
No one ever imagined that an innocent King
would be beaten, whipped, scourged, stripped naked
to hang on an instrument of torture known as a cross,
dying a death that a criminal deserved to die.
No one would ever have imagined this King
hanging on a cross would look up to heaven
and pray for mercy for those who were torturing him
when he said,
"Father, please forgive them
"because they don't even know what they're doing."
