The Great Exchange

In Mark 15, in the middle of perhaps the most well-known of Bible stories, the trial and crucifixion of our Lord and Savior, and we read today a very physical representation of the Gospel and what it is. We see an exchange of sorts take place, and it’s a physical representation of the spiritual reality for all our lives. If we understand this exchange in all of its ironies, all if its injustice, all of its upside-down, inside out reality, we ought to understand the Gospel. And the more anyone understands the Gospel, the more compelling, absorbing, sweet and savoring it should become.