Man: ...? (silence)
And the mental picture comes up...
As the dearly beloved of the family I can never imagine that I'm ignored by my family. I was the spoiled one (still am - though in a different way). I can never imagine that I would show up in my hometown's airport and nobody is there waiting to pick me up.
I can never imagine that by the time I arrive at home...my parents would not say hello to me.
I can never imagine that I call them and they wouldn't answer (actually sometimes it's the other way around...)
If all those things happened... I must be wondering why... and worse... hurt...
Now consider the relationship between Father and Son. Try to understand Their relationship with our puny mind. Millions and Billions of years of sweet relationship - broken on that day.
It wasn't the abandonment of His trusted people
It wasn't the beating
It wasn't the accusations
It wasn't the scourging...the spitting
It wasn't the thorny crown
It wasn't the rejection of the people who hailed Him Lord a few days ago
It wasn't the "Via Dolorosa"
... that hurt Him most...
It was the rejection of His most trusted Person...
The Person Whom He put all His hope into... The Person about Whom He told His disciples...you guys will all leave Me but He would never leave Me...
And for the first time in eternity, He had to cry out...why?why have You forsaken Me?
Still the pain was so great till eventhough He knew the reason, He asked anyway...
And it was this cry that guarrantee us never to cry out the same words again...
...I wonder why it was an angel who gave Him strength???
Now I know why those who reject him would go to hell cause the sacrifice was beyond anything imaginable
Now I know why that He only asks us to believe cause the price is so great and no human can pay for it
-- Too bad the Passion of the Christ movie only focussed on the scourging.
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