The Subsitution (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Living Supernaturally. Today, we are going to take some time to meditate and study the word of God and see how we can apply it in our lives. Today, we are going to look at what happened on the cross, something powerful and significant happened. One aspect of it is this that the Lord went on the cross as a substitute and what He did for us as a substitute turned around and extended the finished work, the benefits of it for our lives. Let’s look at Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 9, it says, ‘But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.’ Another scripture, Romans chapter 5 and verse 8, ‘But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ We see in these scriptures that He tasted death for us. We can personalize that and say the Lord Jesus tasted death for me or He experienced death for my sake. It says here that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, so we can personalize it and say the Lord Jesus, while I was still a sinner, He died for me. 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 18, ‘For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.’ This scripture also talks about how He suffered for us, for our sins and for the unjust, for you and I. The substitution work that He did, the work that we see here that He died for, He suffered for, that word means that He did something instead of, in place of, on behalf of and as a substitute for; which is amazing because it says that He became what we were when He took our place. This is the power of the cross and this is the beauty of that great substitution that He did for you and for me. Because He faced death, we don’t have to face it. He is talking about being separated from God, we will go through physical death but He is talking about another kind of death, He faced death so that we don’t have to face it. He suffered for the sake of sin that we do not have to suffer and He suffered for the sake of the unjust so that we do not have to suffer. The suffering that He actually underwent on the cross is instead of us, so that we don’t have to go through the same thing. The suffering that He underwent is in place of us or on behalf of us. So, today, when we look at the cross, when we understand what He went through, we can stand boldly and we can stand with all humility and gratitude and say, I don’t have to go through that because Christ already took my place and He suffered in my place. Shall we pray? Father, we thank you for the great act of substitution on the cross. We are humbled by what you are underwent on the cross for our sake. Today, we are thankful, we are full of gratitude and we praise you. We thank you that we don’t have to undergo all that you underwent, by your stripes, we are healed and because of what you did, we are forgiven and every curse is taken away because of what you did for us on the cross. Today, we can walk in fullness of life and all that you are extending to us by that work of grace. We receive gratefully and we praise and worship you today, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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