He Knew Every Sin

Back in the days of simple thinking, I probably thought that God handed His Son a sort of shapeless 1000-lb weight while saying something like, "Son, this is the weight of all those sins you are dying for." As I have grown in faith, I rather expect something different today. I believe that Jesus had to know each and every sin He was dying and paying for to satisfy the Father's judgment price. While the weight of it on the cross probably was immense, Jesus had to feel the pain of each sin and know in Himself the wages paid by all that sin. Peter knew of this when he wrote:

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
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​​“Who committed no sin,
​​Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;
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who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2:21-24)

I do not yet understand how the stripes Jesus bore can heal us now. God alone knows how these things work; we have faith that they do because He said so in His word. You and I may not feel justified on a summer morning, but we are by His word. May God bless us all on this day.

Bucky