He who gives bread to mankind became the “Bread of Heaven”. He who thirsted on the cross was the Water of Life that quenches the thirst of the soul. He who was naked on the cross clothes us with His righteousness. He who was wounded heals us. He who went through death to life brings us to the same place. He who was arrested and bound has come to break our sin-chains and set us free. He who was rejected by His own has declared us accepted as His own. He who was homeless is now our Home. He who was cast out of Jerusalem to die has opened the New Jerusalem for us. In Him we aliens and foreigners were included in the people of God. He makes sinners into saints; He adopts orphans as children receiving them with full hospitality into the household of faith, God’s very own family.
“But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household.” Ephesians 2:13, 19 (NASB)
