When I read this weeks devotional I couldn't help to think just how people perceived Jesus. To the people who followed him he was the Messiah, a general, one who was going to set the Jews free from Roman rule.
Yet, Jesus came as servant, the lowest form of a person at that time. He was set himself lower than anybody he served. He didn't preach about war or fighting. He preached about laying down his life for others, praying for your enemies, and turning the other cheak. In reality, Jesus was very backwords in his thinking as the Messiah.
People were looking for someone to set them free from their current state. But Jesus did just that. Jesus set us free in our hearts and minds. We no longer have to fight in the world that surrounds us, Jesus has already done that for us. He took the battle that rages us in daily and takes it on himself. Hey laid himself down as the lamb so we wouldn't have to. He was the lamb that set us free.
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