Today’s Devotion
Topic: He Wouldn’t Answer?
Text: Mark 15: 4-5
4 And Pilate again asked Him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” 5. But Jesus made no further answer so that Pilate was amazed. Amen
Easter is here again and as usual, the fuss around it is on. Is it not supposed to be a period set aside to remember the events that surrounded the death and ressurection of Jesus the Messiah?
Talking about the very Savior whose life showed us the way back to the Father and whose death redeemed us from the power of sin and death? The One whose blood purges us from our sin and whose ressurection assures believers of a glorious life in eternity one day to come? How easily have we forgotten its true essence just to make way for merry making and fun making.
You see, in the morning of His crucifixion, a consultation was held and Jesus was delivered to Pilate. Seeing Jesus as a righteous man and having been warned by his wife of what she had experienced and seen the night before because of Christ, Pilate sought to free Jesus and gave Him the opportunity to clear Himself. “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” Pilate inquired. Yet Jesus would not answer.
Yes, He made no further answer so that Pilate was amazed. It was for this purpose the Son of Man had come, so that through His death and ressurection, God’s promise of saving mankind would be accomplished. Being innocent of all the charges, answering in His defence would get Him acquited and discharged. Yet “the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin” (Heb 9: 22).
Brethren is it for nothing that Christ suffered this kind of mockery and death? Would we allow His death and ressurection be in vain? Can’t we see how He humbled Himself, even till He took his last breath that we may be saved? Should we be like the centurion at the time who had to wait to see all the miraculous signs after Jesus’ death to realise He was indeed the Son of God?
Easter is, and should be about Christ alone. A day of reflection about where we would have been if Jesus had not loved us and given His life in our place? Any other imposed reason would still not measure up.
May your your Love for the Savior rekindle as you reflect on His life this day and may the power of His ressurection cause you to offer your life as a living sacrifice. In the process of doing these, may every door that is closed in your life be opened as the curtain of the temple is torn into two to give you direct access to the presence of God. There in the throne room every life gets changed by mercy. Yours should never remain the same too.
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