Greece, NY

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