By His Wounds

I Peter 2: 23-24

And while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him Who judges righteously;
And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the Cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

Peter is telling us here what Isaiah had said in his chapter 53, how Jesus fulfilled this prophecy. 

Jesus came the first time as Messiah to be the example of how we need to be with one another, as well as to be our personal Sacrifice as the Lamb of God. 

He was humble and mild, even though He was our Almighty Lord God and Sovereign King. 

He is our Great Physician to heal our every malady with the balm of His own precious Blood poured out for our benefit. 

And His desire is to enable us to overcome all of our bad habits and poor choices, to not be affected by whatever misses the bulls-eye of perfection (sin). He has given us His own Holy Spirit, the power that raised Jesus from the dead. 

So we have no excuse. God has done everything possible and impossible to make us into perfect, righteous examples of His creative power. We can do righteousness, we can die to sin, we can live our lives loving one another as He has loved us, we can be honest and ethical in our business dealings and we can be generous with others with the abundance He has given us.

By His wounds we are healed. 

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!