| There is only one place where we can have a secure footing. Look back in time to the crucifixion of Christ. Upon the central cross hangs One who certainly did not deserve such a place. He “went about doing good” (Acts 10:38), and only good. He was none other than the Son of God. In His life among men He was, “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners” (Hebrews 7:26). But on Calvary He was “numbered with the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12), numbered with them by an unjust verdict, though not of them. But in being given a place among them He fulfilled all that had been prophesied by the Old Testament prophets long before. |
| He died, but in His death He is as different from those crucified with Him as He had been in His life. They acknowledged their condemnation to be a just one while He, at the end of the three hours of darkness, cries, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34).He took our sins on Himself, and now we have a perfect and firm standing before God as a result. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). |
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