Tell Me WHY 5/13 Monday Meditation

"Tell me, dear Spirit, Teacher and Guide, O tell me WHY did they whip Him so! Was He whipped that my many sins might be washed away?"




"No, child, the blood on the cross was sufficient for that."



"Then why did they pluck the beard from His face, and beat Him with cruel staves, was that for the cleansing of sin?"



"No, child, the Blood was sufficient for that."



"Then why, O Spirit of God, tell me why did they torture my Saviour so? Was God merely permitting the vindictive, fiendish wrath of an angry mob to be wreaked upon the head of His blessed Son? Else if His stripes did not cleanse me from sin, then WHY did they whip Him so?"



"Why, child! Do you not know the meaning of that lash, the cruel blows of the smiters' scourge? 'Twas thus He bare your suffering, and by His stripes ye are healed."



-- Aimee Semple McPherson