Crown of Thorns
by Danny C. Wash
“Cursed is the ground because of you...it will produce thorns and thistles for you.” Genesis 3:17-18
“unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.” John 12:24
When Adam sinned, a terrible curse fell
upon the ground to produce thistles & thorns,
which were painful pricking plants from hell
bringing forth the crown of thorns by Jesus worn,
while struggling to the cross and stumbling fell.
Soldiers had woven this cursed thorn crown for Him
bearing the twisted thorns as the symbol of our sin.
The soldiers by placing the crown on Him were mocking
Jesus, but He was taking on His head the symbol of the curse
first caused by the original sin of Adam being the thorns.
He did this to identify with all sinful people at our worst
to suffer and die for us and thereby receive the full scorn
of punishment, pain, and death that we all deserve, to atone
for all to satisfy God’s wrath against our sin, for Him to find rest.
After the death of Jesus on the cross and having passed the test
as being the kernel of wheat sown in the ground to produce
much wheat, which are the new believers born from above
by faith in Jesus Christ as a new race because of His labor of love;
Jesus rose from the tomb in His resurrected body of flesh and bone,
met His disciples, then ascended into Heaven to sit on His throne,
being glorified & sending forth the Holy Spirit into our spirits to live
providing Christ's power & love to us so we could to the world so give.
