Wounded For Us

For example sinfulness or sin is just a Biblical word to some people. They believe that whatever they are doing is okay if it does not hurt someone else or other people think it is permissible.

Many people use the name of the Lord in vain and think nothing of it. Some people place material possessions before their relationship with God. In other words, they are worshipping other gods.

Adultery is being committed on a daily basis, but some people do not think they are doing anything wrong. In each one of these, God’s Commandments are being broken. Sin is being committed and the result is sinfulness.

Man’s wicked thoughts wounded the Savior. Remember the story of David and Bathsheba. “One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing… Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her” (2 Samuel 11:2, 4).

David’s focus was on what he wanted, his own desires. Temptation came upon him and instead of turning away from it, he embraced it. He could have stopped, but instead, he chose to fall for the temptation. David chose to sin.

This same thing happens to people today. They are faced with temptation, which the devil always makes look very good and satisfying, something that one can’t be without or something one needs and when accepted, the person falls into the grips of sin.

The wicked thoughts of man lead man into temptation and temptation, if not stopped, leads into sin. This wounds our Savior every time it takes place. It is true that man will think evil thoughts, because this is one of Satan’s arrows, but that arrow can be stopped by the Word of God. Jesus was wounded for us, but we need not wound Him anymore.

Another instrument that wounds our Savior is the use of wicked devices. The method we use to cheat or injure people because they have something we desire. An employee may want the job or position a fellow worker has and in order to acquire that position degrades and makes false statement about that person causing the person to lose the position. Words can be like a two-edged sword.

Another instrument that wounds our Savior is disloyalty. When man does not honor God who created him and does not follow His Word, man is disloyal to God. If we place more emphasis on things than on God, we are being disloyal to God. If we try to serve two masters, we are being disloyal to God. Disloyalty is really disobedience and disobedience is a sin.

Man’s lack of faith is another instrument that wounds the Savior. Since we cannot see God, how can we know he exists? We know He exists by faith. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen… By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” (Hebrews 11:1, 3).

When the disciples tried to heal a certain boy they failed. They could not understand why, so they asked Jesus what was wrong. Jesus said, “Because of your unbelief, for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).