Galatians 3:13-14
(Use the link below to read the verses.)
Do
you remember the old metal kitchen table from the fifties with metal legs? Starting
as a little girl, my wife would dump her peas inside one of the table legs when
her Mom wasn’t looking. It wasn’t until they moved before her senior year of
high school that her Dad found the cache of hardened peas.
My
wife hates vegetables! And her parents were very strict about finishing her
vegetables before she could leave the table. The rest of the family would be
done and gone for hours, while poor Little Debbie sat alone at the table
playing with her cold, stale vegetables.
Into
her punishment, walked Bubba, her Big Brother. Oftentimes, he would sneak into
the kitchen, grab a handful of veggies off Debbie’s plate and quickly pitch
them into the trash. On occasion, he would even force the cold stale food down
his own throat. In a sense, taking her punishment on himself.
That’s
what Jesus did for you and me. He took all of our sinful thoughts, words,
actions and desires; all the things that would nail us to the cross. He took
them as his own so
that we wouldn’t have to suffer.
13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the
law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our
wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is
hung on a tree.” NLT
For
my wife, as a little girl, Bubba took her punishment away allowing her to leave
the dinner table. For us, Jesus is the only one who can take our punishment
away. And what is the result of his sacrifice?
Paul
wrote in Romans 8, “Therefore, there is
now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because
through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from
the law of sin and death.”
The
peas are gone in our life. There is no sin from the past, present or future
counted against us. We are free to live without judgement; without
condemnation; without shame. All of this because of Jesus.
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