wondering why

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

- 1 Peter 3:18

 

This verse says a lot, I mean, Christ suffered – like really suffered tremendous pain like we have never experienced when He was crucified.

He didn’t suffer for sins that He had committed, but for the sins of the world.
That is my sin, your sin, our sin, every single sin, Christ took that sin upon His shoulders and died.

Died.  

Why?

To bring us to God.

To give us a chance to turn away from an eternity in Hell.

To show us what the love of the Father can do.

The Message translation of this verse is as follows: 
If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They’ll end up realizing that they’re the ones who need a bath. It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.

Do you know His name?

Do you know the Man that God raised from the dead so that you could enter His kingdom?

As followers of Christ we need to be ready to tell our story. 
It may not be glamourous (it probably isn’t), but it is our story and we need to share it so that others would come to God too.

 

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