I’m currently reading about the Holocaust for one of my upper-level History classes. Conservative estimates put the Jewish death toll around six million. Such a large number can be difficult to comprehend. Around two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe were wiped out. Approximately two-fifths of all Jews worldwide were systematically murdered under the Nazi regime.
Imagine that you are a farmer living in the German countryside when a Jewish mother and father show up at your door with their two young children seeking refuge. You would surely know that if you were caught harboring Jews, you and your family would face certain death. Would you risk the lives of you and your family by providing them with a safe hiding place or would you determine that it’s not your problem? Consider this: when faced with the decision to take on the cross and give his life for our sins, Jesus considered it his problem.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
~Isaiah 53:5
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
~I Peter 2:24
