{"id":39800,"date":"2026-03-27T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39800"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:30:41","slug":"26-0328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0328\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is Worthy of Our Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Why did Jesus live on the earth as long as He did?\u00a0 To take on our sins is one thing, to experience death yes, but to put up with long roads and long days?\u00a0 Why did He do it? Because He wants you to trust Him. Even His final act on earth was intended to win your trust.<\/p>\n

Mark 15:22-24 says, \u201cthey brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha where they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.\u00a0 And they crucified Him\u201d (NIV). \u00a0Why?\u00a0 Why did He endure all this suffering\u2014all\u00a0 these feelings?<\/p>\n

Well, because He knew you\u2019d be weary, disturbed, and angry.\u00a0 He knew you would be grief-stricken, and hungry, that you would face pain. A pauper knows better than to beg from another pauper. He needs someone who is stronger than he is. Jesus\u2019 message from the Cross is this: I am that Person. Trust Me.<\/p>\n

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

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Why did Jesus live on the earth as long as He did? To take on our sins is one thing, to experience death yes, but to put up with long roads and long days? Why did He do it? Because He wants you to trust Him. Even His final act on earth was intended to win your trust.<\/p>\n

Mark 15:22-24 says, \u201cthey brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha where they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified Him\u201d (NIV). Why? Why did He endure all this suffering\u2014all these feelings?<\/p>\n

Well, because He knew you\u2019d be weary, disturbed, and angry. He knew you would be grief-stricken, and hungry, that you would face pain. A pauper knows better than to beg from another pauper. He needs someone who is stronger than he is. Jesus\u2019 message from the Cross is this: I am that Person. Trust Me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39800","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\/39800","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=39800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39802,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800\/revisions\/39802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}