Courage

We can have our backs torn to pieces, a crown of thorns piercing our skull, be slapped and punched and spit on, have our hands and feet nailed to a cross, hang there in suffocating agony for hours before finally being taken over by death, and still not even come close to the agony our Savior suffered!

We will never know what Christ endured. We cannot even hold up under our own sin. We fall and are crushed by sins heavy load. But, here was Christ, set to take on the sins of the world, all while being cruelly beaten and nailed to the cross. And knowing full well what lie ahead for Him, Luke records that Jesus resolutely set His face to Jerusalem.

What courage!

Conclusion

Do you have the courage that Christ can give? When you count the cost, will you do it anyway? Will you have the courage when you fall to stand in Christ again? Will you follow the greatest example of courage found in Jesus Christ?

Can you live the life described in 2 Corinthians 4 “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body...Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”