Jesus in My Place

Hi, my name is Kristen:

I am good

I am pure

I am holy

I am righteous

I am beautiful

I am perfect

I am pleasing

I am patient

I am kind

I am tenderhearted

I am compassionate

I am humble

I am sinless

Do you know Jesus?

He is selfish

He is impatient

He is vile

He is angry

He is ugly

He is prideful

He is rebellious

He is a gossip

He is a liar

He is a murderer

He is a thief

He is vicious

He is sinful

This is the gospel.

Jesus in my place.

On the cross, Jesus traded identities with me.

He gave me His righteousness and He took my sin.

He became my sin.

He became that description above.

And then He took the punishment I deserved.

The wrath of God was poured out on Him.

He was separated from His Father.

His purity, His perfection, His sinlessness

was placed on my shoulders,

while my vile way of life

was place on His.

He endured hell for me.

He suffered my guilt and shame.

Then He died.

And then He destroyed death.

His righteousness overcame my eternal sentence

and He rose from the dead.

He defeated death and now sits at the right hand of His Father.

And when His Father looks at me,

He sees His Son's righteousness,

He sees a sealed heir to the kingdom,

He sees one whom He chose before creation to save,

He sees His child.

The gospel.

It truly is good news, isn't it?

"He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold;

I shall not be greatly shaken."

Psalm 62:2

(***Just for clarification, Jesus is not currently a sinner.

He bore our sins on the cross.

This was a one time event.

Just don't want anyone to freak out...)