Contemporary Stations - Station Eleven, Jesus Redeems the Thief on the Cross

While Jesus was experiencing the physical, emotional and possibly even spiritual agony of the cross, he still expressed the divine nature of his love (God's love) for man. He had the compassion to listen to the pleas of one who had great need - he made the effort to repress his own pain and answer to the needs of a sinner. The thief who hung on the cross for crimes that he had committed ... "suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds." 

And like the two thieves are we - exactly like the thieves. On the one hand are those who profane, ridicule, or reject Christ and on the other hand are those who recognize the sinful nature that engulfs us and turn to Christ humbly asking for redemption. We are either one or the other; in this there is no middle ground, no grey area, no fence to sit upon. And just as he did with the thief, Christ will always offer us forgiveness and salvation if we but ask for it.

Lord Jesus, remember me, I humbly ask, when you come into your kingdom, this broken sin-filled woman that I am.