The hymnist Isaac Watts wrote; \u2018See from His head, His hands, His feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e\u2019er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown?\u2019 Jesus wore a crown of thorns so you could wear a crown of glory. Thorns in Scripture represent sin.<\/p>\n
In Eden when Adam and Eve disobeyed, God said, \u2018Cursed is the ground because of you\u2026 both thorns and thistles it will grow for you.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a03:17\u201318\u00a0NASB) Later He told Israel that unless they purged the land of their enemies, \u2018they will be like\u2026 thorns in your sides.\u2019<\/i> (Numbers\u00a033:55\u00a0NCV) Solomon cautioned: \u2018Corrupt people walk a thorny, treacherous road.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a022:5\u00a0NLT) And Jesus warned, \u2018You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a07:16\u00a0TLB)<\/p>\n
Max Lucado writes: \u2018The crown of thorns Jesus wore represented all our sins. As we were caught in the brambles of envy, anger, shame, discouragement, guilt, bitterness, and unforgiveness, so Jesus, who knew no sin, became \u201can atoning sacrifice for our sins.\u201d<\/i> (1\u00a0John\u00a04:10\u00a0NIV) Not once did Christ use His supernatural powers for personal comfort. With just a word He could have transformed the hard earth into a soft bed\u2026 hurled the spit of His accusers back into their faces\u2026 and paralysed the hand of the soldier who braided the thorns. But He didn\u2019t. Instead, \u201cHe cancelled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to Christ\u2019s cross.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Colossians\u00a02:14\u00a0NLT) And He did it with you<\/i> in mind. Amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The hymnist Isaac Watts wrote; \u2018See from His head, His hands, His feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e\u2019er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown?\u2019 Jesus wore a crown of thorns so you could wear a crown of glory. Thorns in Scripture represent sin. In Eden when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}