So far we have looked at Jesus' humility and His meekness. I feel there is one more attribute of our saving Lord that falls right in line with these other two. That attribute is Jesus determination. Just read through John 18-19 and there is so much stuff from those chapters that should have made Jesus give up and stop the crucifixion that it is to long a list to fully show. Jesus is betrayed by a greedy friend and denied by a fearful friend. Jesus is falsely accused and treated with disrespect. Jesus is flogged twice, disgraced publicly, and shamed openly in front of His closest family. Jesus has a crown with 3 inch thorns rammed on His head and made to carry a weighty cross. Then He is nailed to the cross with 6 inch spikes and put up publicly to die in great pain, ridicule and shame. All the while, Jesus closest person, His Holy Father, cannot bear to watch or be with Jesus because He is taking our sin in our place. Every human in history would have stopped after only the first step if they would have had the power to.
But Jesus never stops the parade and suffering. Instead Jesus stays determined to see this task through. Jesus knows that every minute after this moment would have been worse and that this dying on the cross thing would not be fun. Yet Jesus is determined to see it all through and come out in the end the victorious Savior. Jesus was determined through it all for you and me and it was His determination that help lead to opening the door for our salvation.
Jesus has the perfect determination that we need to emulate and follow His example. Our lives will never be as tough and challenging as Jesus was during those last few hours. And yet we can be determined to see whatever God has led us through and then give Him the glory, just like Jesus. We need to learn to follow Jesus example of being determined because than others will see Jesus in and through us and glorify God also and just maybe others will join us in the kingdom because we were determined like our Savior.
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