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“And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him” (Luke 23:33).
Yesterday was Independence Day in the United States of America, and it reminded me of something Abraham Lincoln said in February, 1861, while he was on his way to Washington, D.C. to be inaugurated as President of the United States. He visited Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and in a speech he made there, said, “I am deeply moved to be standing in the place where the nation was founded.”
Most of us have never visited the place in the land of Israel where our Lord was crucified, but when we come together to remember Him in His death, do we feel “deeply moved” when we think of Calvary’s cross, and all that took place there? He has said that “where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). Do we appreciate His presence there, and do we appreciate His desire for us to remember Him?
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