{"id":39499,"date":"2026-03-05T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39499"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:30:46","slug":"260305-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260305-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Briar Patch of Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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What is the fruit of sin? Step into the briar patch of humanity and feel a few thistles. Shame. Fear. Disgrace. Discouragement. Anxiety. Haven\u2019t our hearts been caught in these brambles?<\/p>\n

The heart of Jesus, however, had not. Jesus never knew the fruits of sin\u2014until he became sin for us. And when he did, all the emotions of sin tumbled in on him. Can\u2019t you hear the emotion in his prayer at the Cross? \u201cMy God, my God, why have you rejected me?\u201d (Matthew 27:46). These are not the words of a saint. This is the cry of a sinner. He stood silent as a million guilty verdicts echoed in the tribunal of heaven.<\/p>\n

Do you want to know the most amazing thing about the One who gave up the crown of heaven for a crown of thorns? He did it for you. Just for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Read more\u00a0He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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What is the fruit of sin? Step into the briar patch of humanity and feel a few thistles. Shame. Fear. Disgrace. Discouragement. Anxiety. Haven\u2019t our hearts been caught in these brambles?<\/p>\n

The heart of Jesus, however, had not. Jesus never knew the fruits of sin\u2014until he became sin for us. And when he did, all the emotions of sin tumbled in on him. Can\u2019t you hear the emotion in his prayer at the Cross? \u201cMy God, my God, why have you rejected me?\u201d (Matthew 27:46). These are not the words of a saint. This is the cry of a sinner. He stood silent as a million guilty verdicts echoed in the tribunal of heaven.<\/p>\n

Do you want to know the most amazing thing about the One who gave up the crown of heaven for a crown of thorns? He did it for you. Just for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39501,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39499\/revisions\/39501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}