Ah! that “crown of thorns” on the head of Jesus. How dreadfully presumptious of Satan to incite His enemies to bruise His blessed head with thorns.
The first word of God’s curse on the earth because of sin is “thorns,” and the very first thing that man did when he got God’s beloved Son into his hands was to crown Him with thorns. Yet how great His grace: He took all the curse, from the first fruit, earth’s thorns, down to the last failure of the last saint upon the earth.
What a Savior Jesus is! The more we look at His fullness and the riches of His grace, the more do we long to look more into it. He is like a diamond with countless prisms, on all sides loveliness, beauty, and glory.