It’s not just young people that
are bullied.
Karen Klein, a 68-year-old school bus monitor, said
she had been bullied by some middle school students for a while, but it was
especially vicious one day recently – and it was all caught on video. The video
was put on YouTube and it went “viral.”
In the video that is both heartbreaking and
disturbing, several middle school students in Greece, NY can be seen and heard
taunting Klein with statements like, “Karen, you’re fat. Dude, you’re so fat.”
The insults continue to be hurled in the video in extremely graphic and
offensive language.
Yet Klein did not retaliate. She told Fox News that
throughout the children’s assaults she restrained herself, and tried to pretend
as though it wasn’t happening. “I have escaped a lot in my life, and I’m trying
to let things go,” she said.
In a particularly harsh remark, one of the children
claimed that Klein didn’t have a family because “they all killed themselves
because they didn’t want to be near you.” Did the student know that Klein’s
oldest son took his own life 10 years ago?
Klein stated that she endured the bullying because she
doesn’t like confrontation. “I didn’t want to do anything to hurt anybody. That
wouldn’t have looked good either.” *
There was Another who endured the taunts of a mocking
crowd....
It was JESUS, the Son of God. Please read Matthew
27:11-54 and 1 Peter 2:21-24. Even as He was hanging on the cross, “the chief
priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. ‘He saved
others,’ they said, ‘but he can't save himself!’” (Mark 15:31).
Actually, He COULD have called more than twelve
legions of angels to deliver Him. But He didn’t. And He endured MORE than just
the mocking insults of the angry mob; He took upon Himself the sins of the whole
world of all time – including your sins and mine.
“God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that
WE might become the righteousness of God IN HIM” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
We are credited with the righteousness of Christ WHEN
we accept His offer of salvation on His terms!
Jesus will save those who: place their faith and trust
in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from sin in repentance (Acts 17:30-31, confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into Christ for
the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(Hebrews 12:2)
Jesus endured the taunts and endured the cross so that
WE might be saved from sin!
Won’t YOU accept His offer?
David A. Sargent, Minister
davidsargent1@comcast.net
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