“Treasures of His Love”

Amid a community event, a sweet and innocent child had asked of me “Why does Jesus still have His wounds on His hands and feet when he appears to people? Wouldn’t G-d have healed them when Jesus camp out of the tomb?” If you think about it, that in the eyes of a innocents, such a wise question would come illustrating this child loves Yehoshua so much that he wanted Yehoshua to be perfectly whole?

With a gentle knell to speak with this adorable boy, I explained to him “the wounds of Jesus are His reminding glories, His precious treasures of sacrifice for you, your mom and dad and for all those who love our Lord as much as you.” Yehoshua’s precious wounds remind all who would believe in Him as very recognizable symbol of the great love of man has our Lord and that He alone would allow His own death of sacrifice that we may live and for eternity, be released from the burdensome anguish of suffering the atonement of our sin. Before the eyes of the Faithful, Yehoshua is in total, completely a sight of our Avinu’s (our Father’s) grace and in the handsome face of our Redeemer, we at once know encompassing encompassing love within the beacon of light of adoration for His people and the Faithful understand emanating from symmetric handsomeness and rugged features of His face draw near all those of hope and those of little hope alike.

Those of undeniable faith instinctively know what some of the questioning faithful of fainting faith may well only see the evidence of horror of the cruelty of man, where the one of unwavering faith surely witnesses instead glory, love and an all-encompassing compassion in the beauty of His wounds… knowing they are beautiful! We see Him as the full bloom of incomparable purity, and as the Rose of Sharon whose bloom’s center is crimsoned with great beauty and breath-taking joyful reminder of His own blood which marks His hands as a mindful glory of His all-encompassing compassionate love. We see in Ha’ Moshiach (The Anointed One) unmatched goodness in the beholding of comprehension in our Yehoshua’s magnificence in the ordained completion of His earthly pilgrimage, though, there never was such a matchless beauty as those presents as He hung upon that ruggedly hewn tree; today we remain in awe of this very same beauty of love in sacrifice.

There was seen all His beatitudes of perfection, and to this day and through eternity we witness the truth of all His attributes developed, all His love drawn out, all His character expressed. My dearest fellow Faithful, the wounds of Yehoshua are far fairer in our eyes than all the splendor and pageantry of a thousand kings. The hastily hand fashioned thorny crown is by far greater than an ordinary imperial headband or crown. While it remains true, He no longer bears the scepter of reed, however, there was even in that ignominy, what was intended to be a great personal humiliation and disgrace put upon our Redeemer before His people; a glory of heaven of such great contrast that could never in reflection of a royal scepter of gold.

Our ever present Yehoshua may seem in appearance of a slain Lamb as is witnessed by His royal, yet simple robes in which He through our heavenly Father's grace persuade and importune of our souls and would bring the true understanding of forgiveness and redeemed within His complete atonement and accepted liability of the sins of all would believe in Him and remain upon the path of our Lord’s teachings.

Yehoshua’s wounds are not only the divine reminding ornaments of our undeniable nature of our Yehoshua: His wounds are the ever mind beauty of treasures of His love and of His supremely ordained victorious example of how the Faithful must stand firm with unwavering convictions of their faith before foes and those would bring before us in their lack of understanding, the vitriol obfuscation characterized by their willingness to do harm to those whom have done no harm to them by merely following the dystopian and dysfunction of the world in which they suffer as pawns of maniacal rule. Ha’ Moshiach has divided the spoils among the strong.

He has redeemed for Himself a greatness of multitude beyond ability to numerate, for these scars are the memorials of the fight of defiance among those would annihilate any measure of respect of those who stand in opposition to them and their flawed account and claims of their own “godliness.” If our mighty Yehoshua loves to retain the reminding characteristics which continue to provoke thought of His sufferings and willing sacrifice for His people, then how precious in our eyes, hearts and minds should His wounds remain glorious to us?

Along our seemingly ceaseless of journey in faith and in the face of difficult trials which test our will and fortitude, we too should treasure the occasion skinned knee or other befallen injury as a badge of honor and source mindful thought of the depth of the meaning of Ha’ Mosiach's cruel but meaningful punishment which promises the peace of His Kingdom,

Pastor Mark