Certainly Jesus bore our sins.

Certainly Jesus bore our sins.

(Original article posted on my Facebook on 11.03.2020.)

As Roman Catholics  and their tradition believes, as Jesus walked the three miles from Pontius Pilate’s courtyard to His Crucifixion at Calvary, the Cross dug through His shoulder ripping flesh from bone. According to a pious legend, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux prayed and asked of Christ what was his greatest unknown suffering, and what wound suffered in His Passion was most painful. Christ replied to him:

“I had on My Shoulder while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grievous Wound which was more painful than the others, and which is not recorded by men.”

What I want to derive out of this is, even after our Lord's passion, crucifixion and resurrection and after believing that "by His stripes, we are healed", as we also believe that, that burden of our sins was upon him. Why we still try to stab, whip, nail our Lord with our attitude, with our concealed secret sins, with occult in our behaviour, Galatians.5:19-21, The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. Titus 1:7, ....not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 

Isn't these all the unknown wounds that we are doing to our Lord. To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good (Titus 1:15,16).

Let's examine ourselves, repent and ask for his grace.

Image: Christ Embracing St Bernard by Francisco Ribalta, 1625–27.