He Took My Place

A devotion on 1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
–1 Peter 2:24

When my son was twenty-two, he suddenly became gravely ill and in horrendous pain while we were vacationing at our lake house over the 4th of July holiday.

The two-hour ride to the hospital was unbearable…