This is a quote that I was wanting to use for Good Friday but couldn't find. Tomorrow's quote is the one I wanted to use for Easter.
On this side of the cross we see all the marvel of opposites to what we see in the Christ on the other side of the cross. On the other side of the cross we see a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, bearing our sicknesses, carrying our sorrows. He had nowhere to lay his head. Poverty was one of His characteristics. Nobody ever stops to think, or rarely so, that He bore His poverty, and what for? "That through His poverty we might be made rich." (2 Cor. 8:9) He bore our sorrows, what for? That we through His sorrows might be made glad. (See Isa. 35:10, Psalm 30:11) He bore our suffering, for what? That we through His stripes might be healed (Isa. 53:5). He gave His life a sacrifice for sins, for what? That we should know no sin. (Heb. 10:12-18) Then having completed the redemption, or purchasing the redemption, the redemption becomes manifest this side of Calvary.
-- John G. Lake
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