It's Friday morning. The news is blazing across the Jerusalem streets like a West Texas brush fire. "The Nazarene is being crucified!" From Solomon's Porch to the Golden Gate people are passing the word. "Have you heard? They've got the Galilean." " I knew he would go to far." "they've got him? I don't believe it!" They say one of his own men turned him in."
Nicodemus is about to go AWOL.
Graves are about to pop open.
An earthquake is about to shake the city.
The temple curtains are about to be torn in two.
Shock, bewilderment, confusion.
A few weep. A few smile. A few walk up the hill to watch the spectacle. A few are irritated that the sanctity of the passover is being violated by a bunch of social activists.
A lot can happen in just one day, a lot can happen in 24 hours.
No one has been left untouched. No one.
The immensity of the Nazarene's execution makes it impossible to ignore.
You can't be neutral on issue like this one. Apathy? Not this time. It's one side or the other. All humanity has to choose.
A choice is demanded. We can do what we want with cross. We can examine it's history. We can study it's theology. We can reflect upon it's prophecies. Yet the one thing we cannot do is walk away neutral. No fence sitting is permitted. The cross, in it's absurd splendor, doesn't allow that. That is one luxury God does not permit.
On Which Side Are You?
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