Tribute!

 One of the most famous quotes from the character Katniss Everdeen from the movie "The Hunger Games" is "I Volunteer As Tribute." She makes this quote to step in to take her sisters place in the game about to be played. The game pits other people against each other in a fight to the death. By volunteering as tribute for her sister, she chose to possibly die instead of her sister.

This made me think of Jesus, volunteering tribute for us. He voluntarily went to The Cross. He didn't have too, He chose to. To take on the punishment due us! Our sins should lead us to death as The Bible says.

Romans 6:23 New Living Translation

23 For the wages of sin is death

But Jesus came to take all of our sins upon himself. Not one or two, but all. Every single person. Doesn't matter who you are. Race, ethnicity, gender, tall, short, He volunteered as tribute for everyone!

Galatians 3:28 New Living Translation

28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile,[a] slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Jesus calls Himself our friend, but most of all He is our Savior, Redeemer, Healer, Provider, Protector, our Heavenly Father. So he went to The Cross for His friends (us) and took the punishment that we deserved! 

John 15:13 New Living Translation

13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

He didn't have to! He could have called down a legion of angels to save him, but He loved us so much that He went through with His fathers plan for Him.

How many of us would take the place of someone else that we love, so that they could live? How many of us would volunteer as tribute? He did that for us, even though we were (are) still sinners!

Romans 5:8 New Living Translation

8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

So I pray that with what Jesus did for us, the crucifixion, the scourging, the piercing, the nails. Everything that He endured for us so that we may live, we live good Godly lives. I know that we will still sin, but try our best to live like Jesus.

1 Peter 2:24 Amplified Bible

24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the [a]cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been [b]healed.

God bless.

Rev. Kev.