“He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.”
The idea of a person who could commit no sin is difficult for me to imagine. What would a person like that be like. We go our whole lives meeting thousands of people—all of them sinners. Yet Jesus “committed no sin.” What does a life like that look like? The glimpse in this passage deals with experiencing suffering unjustly. He was falsely accused with words motivated by hate, but He did not strike back with words of spite or anger. He suffered physically at the hands of His creation, but He did not threaten His tormentors (although He surely had the power to make good on any threat).
Jesus faithfully trusted His life to God. He believed that God was just. And He trusted His life in His Father’s hands. All Christians should put their lives in the Father’s hands. But I imagine that it would be more difficult when you know that the Father intends for you to die. It’s one thing to trust our loving God when we believe that our life will be easy and long. But would I keep on trusting myself to my loving God when I know that He is going to allow me to die and unpleasantly at that? Christ did, and I am supposed to follow in His footsteps. When I look at something like this, the little injustices I experience seem insignificant. Unfortunately, when I am responding poorly to injustice, I seldom think of the injustice that Christ faced. Perhaps that is part of the remedy to the problem. I need to consider my example—the one who suffered for me.
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