KING OF LOVE

 John 19
A crown stained in blood Jesus wore for us so our thinking would become as His. Nails held His body to the cross so our sins would no longer have power over us. The spear pierced His side to show His heart broken for us; He encountered all this naked and wounded to clothe us with His love and to heal us of our wounds.
He became the son of man to teach us to become Sons of God. His cross is a fiery baptism emerged in great love to show us how to love. He was sanctified that we too may be sanctified, bore His cross so we could bear ours; He chose to die so we could choose to die.
His suffering is a display of gracefulness to teach us how to be graceful. He stood before His accusers with no regret, no vengeance, and took our sins upon Himself as though they were His. Nasty spit landed upon His wounds to heal our nasty, false accusation pronounced over Him gave Him the authority to carry our testimony in the spirit of prophecy.
This is the King of Love who died for you and me; His suffering was a prophetic movement moving us out of bondage into freedom, out of slavery into servant-hood, out of orphans into His family, out of losers to winners, out of sickness into healing, out of defamation into reformation, out of darkness into light, out of hopelessness into hope, out of war into peace, out of confusion into understanding, and out of unbelief into belief.
He is the king of Love who came down to us, way down, down here where we are and faced what we face, shoulder what we shoulder, and encountered what we encounter; He took upon Himself our likeness so we could become more like Him, He took upon Himself our sins that our sins could be addressed in love and forgiven so we could be free to live righteous, free to make better choices, free to be free.
The King of Love is addicted to loving us so He may break the addiction breaking us. The Holy Spirit is upon Him, He is anointed “…to preach the gospel to the poor; he has been sent to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised…” (Luke 4:18).
He is the King of Love, through His sufferings He has earned the right to look pass the surface and see what is bleeding on the inside of us; He is anointed to set at liberty those who are bruised. He is anointed to set us free from the things inside us broken and bleeding.
The king of Love was not only wounded for our transgressions the outward manifestations of our sins, He was also bruised for our iniquities, the inward bleeding, the inward pain owning the reason why we sin. He is the King of Love who died for us.
It is not a wonder why His testimony is the spirit of prophecy, through His sufferings He has earned the right to carry our testimonies as judicial pronouncements against the accusations the enemy of our souls holds against us. It is not a wonder why we are able to overcome our enemy by His blood and the Word of our testimony; He is the King of Love and Love never fails.