Spectators!!!

I wish to take you to a real play which happened many years ago. Many were there around the central scene; some to give orders, a few to judge, and some to execute orders, others remained as silent spectators. Though the pain of the passion of Jesus touched many of them, they tried to keep a distance from the cross. The cross becomes meaningful only when we realise the real pain of bearing it. The true experience is possible when we move alongside bearing the cross-experiencing the pain of humanity. Can we see those pains around us? Are we participants or spectators? Better to be condemned with Jesus than released with Barabbas!!!! 

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ (Mathew 25:45) 

The one and only person who was born to die was none other than Jesus Christ. There was a cross in heaven before one was raised on top of Calvary. Now comes a fundamental question: Why? Why did Jesus die? The answer can be more than one. 

It is an expression of God’s Love. John 3:16 

It is for our sins Mathew 1:21 

It is an act of ‘giving’ 2 Cor 9:15, 2 Cor 8:9 

It is an act of self emptying Phil 2.8 

Etc etc 

Though what God revealed through His son was in full, our understanding of it is neither perfect nor complete. The Cross and the power that flows from it have not changed, but we have changed. Have a fresh look at the cross and meditate on the amazing sacrifice of Jesus and what the resurrection of Jesus can mean in the life of each of us.