HE chooses and saves
one of HIS crucifiers!
(Alexander Smellie, "The Secret Place" 1907)
for they do not know what they are doing.'
And they divided up HIS clothes by
casting lots." Luke 23:34
there in front of JESUS, heard HIS
cry and saw how HE died, he said:
Surely this man was the SON of GOD!"
Mark 15:39
HE WHO hung in sheer and marvelous
mercy on the Cross craves a trophy
of grace, and will not be satisfied until
HE has it. Out of the ranks of cruel
paganism, HE chooses and saves
one of HIS crucifiers!
The SAVIOR had been praying, and
it is evident now that HIS prayer was
not in vain:
HE had entreated GOD for the very
Roman centurion who had nailed HIM
to HIS tree of shame, and then had sat
down and barbarously gambled for HIS
clothes. Yet he is . . .
fully and instantly forgiven,
led bound in blessed thraldom
by HIM WHOSE arms he had fettered,
transformed into the confessor of
the Man he crucifies!
Let me rejoice that nothing is too
hard for the prayers of JESUS.
HE asks GOD for . . .
my salvation and pardon,
the conquest of my unthinking
and earth-chained mind,
the renewal of my selfish,
proud and disobedient life.
In the heavenly place HE lifts HIS
holy and pierced hands on my behalf.
And the FATHER gives HIM HIS heart's
desire, and does not withhold
the request of HIS lips.
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