Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional – 11th April 2025 – Near His Heart

INSIGHT FOR TODAY WITH CHUCK SWINDOLL.

Insight for Today provides practical, relevant insight into today’s issues with Biblical principles applied. This devotional will help you connect with God on a daily basis, while also equipping you with a Bible-based approach to transforming your everyday life. Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll.

The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 11th April 2025 is “Near His Heart”.

Scripture: John 19:26–27

Near His Heart

TODAY’S INSIGHT – 11TH APRIL 2025.

When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, “Dear woman, here is your son.” And he said to this disciple, “Here is your mother.” —John 19:26–27 (NLT)

What a contrast we have at the cross! God’s perfect sacrifice—His Lamb—hung there in agony, giving His life, shedding His blood for the sins of the world. Heaven stood breathless, as the salvation of the world was being completed. And at the feet of the Lord Jesus, four coarse, sin-hardened soldiers were shooting dice for garments. The contrast is profound.

Also at the foot of that cross, with faithfulness and quiet heroism, stood Jesus’ mother Mary. What a courageous woman this beloved mother was—not a crumpled heap but “standing.”

Imagine what it must have been like for Mary to watch her dear son being brutalized, tortured, and hung on a cross?

As she stood there, Jesus said to her, “Mother, behold, your son.” And then He addressed John the disciple whom He loved. In effect Jesus told John: “I charge you to adopt this woman as your mother. You are to take her into your home and into your life. Love her and care for her as I would, were I to continue to live. She is to become as precious and dear to you as she has been to Me.”

At the closing moment of His life, during His indescribable suffering, Jesus took care of His mother. Though His own pain was unbearable, He had her welfare and protection near His heart to the very last.

At the cross her station keeping,

Stood the mournful mother weeping,

Where he hung, the dying Lord:

for her soul of joy bereaved

Bowed with anguish, deeply grieved,

Felt the sharp and piercing sword

Who, on Christ’s dear mother gazing,

Pierced by anguish so amazing,

Born of woman, would not weep?

Who on Christ’s dear mother thinking,

Such a cup of sorrow drinking,

Would not share her sorrows deep?

—Latin text, 13th century

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