I started watching the episode on Easter already cringing. I have become my mother when it comes to TV and movies...I am now a strong PG-13 person and anything above that I can't handle. I knew how this story ends...and I was bracing for it already.
I found myself watching it through my hand covering my face. My stomach turns just thinking about it, even now. Jesus did that...not because he wanted to, not because he was caught but because he wanted to save me. I still can't shake the image...I just can't "get over it."
Yesterday, I finally realized...we aren't supposed to "get over it"...ever. The image of the brutal crucifixion should never leave our minds. It is real and it happened. We should feel uncomfortable about it because no one would voluntarily do that for us in this world.
Jesus died on the cross, to pay for sins I haven't even committed yet. Just let that sink in...
He went through that to save people he KNEW wouldn't appreciate or value it. For people who he KNEW would consistently turn him away and not accept the gift he worked so hard to get. He died on the cross so that sinners like me, who have no business in Heaven, would have the option to be reborn and have eternal life.
I hope that I never "get over it."
The absolute wonder of it all. The incredible story that happened over 2,000 years ago...to save you and me. Jesus already paid the price for you...take him up on the best gift, ever offered to anyone in all of history.
