DAILY READINGS: 1 Chronicles 8:1-9:44; Ezekiel 11:1-25; John 3:22-36
David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless? 1 Samuel 26:9
David knew it was wrong to kill Saul. To do so placed one under condemnation. At Calvary, both Jews and Romans delivered up Christ, God’s anointed. Yet Christ forgave them (Luke 23:34) and God used their complicity to judge His holy Son for our sins. He is the sinner’s substitute. Even for the sinners who delivered Him up. For the lying witnesses. For the Romans who knowingly condemned an innocent man. For us. Trusting Christ, complicit sinners like us are free. —George Ferrier
Dying for me, dying for me, there on the cross He was dying for me;
Now in His death my redemption I see, all because Jesus was dying for me. —Gladys W. Roberts