Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Just a game!
As I read today's reading selection I was taken back at the motives of the guards and on lookers of Jesus' Crucifixion. I have read the story many of times and I have been alive for twenty one Easter's. I know the story. However, the older I get the more it feels as though I am able to process the reality of situations, especially this situation. It never occurred to me that the guards and priests cared so much about Jesus. That's right they cared. They cared about giving Jesus the best/worst treatment possible on the cross. The guards where doing their best to make sure nobody ever forgot the day, that the "King of Jews" was killed. It was a game to them, they wanted to see how much humiliation they could put the destroyer of the temple through. They did not care about who's son he was, they cared about pain. The one point that gets me thinking about this whole story is the part at the end of the Crucifixion story when the guard says, "Surely He was the son of God." This statement implies that the guard thought that he was God's Son, but he is now dead and will not be again. This guard as part of it right, He is God's Son. But the thing the guard missed is that He still is. Why after all the miracles Jesus preformed and exorcisms did this guard decide who Jesus was based on His last words. I can't figure it out, I wonder if I would have done the same.
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Yeah, I am always amazed at how God can put people together or how he can use people's false motives to accomplish his purposes. I think that we need to see this test in the light that God used the guards to completely humiliate Christ so he could be honored. I am forever greatful that God is so much bigger than we are that he can use what we mess up (the guards) and turn it into the greatest story of all time.
-Steven
What alwaysto get me in the trials and the crucifixion are the Roman Guards. Its as you say, they treat Jesus in such a way as if they are trying to make this crucifixion one to remember, one that one including them will soon forget. They beat Jesus in such a way that he should probably already be dead before he gets to the cross yet he still makes it to take on the sins of the world. WE talk about the crucifixion so much and I think lose focus on the things that Jesus had to go through before he was nailed to the cross such as mocking and being flogged.
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