Power under Control

Pastor Rony said something today that I thought was immensely worth thinking about... Everyone, Christian or not, knows that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. That He suffered an immense amount of pain. That He bore on stripe for every portion of our body so that even our illnesses were borne by Him into Hell. But do we really know how much He paid that day?

The Bible said Jesus humbled Himself and came down as an ordinary man to live amongst humans, to live like them and be tempted just like we are today. Yes, tempted... like how powerful men abuse their position and power to control other people. Or how even little kids no older than 9 use their position as a bigger and stronger boy/girl to bully smaller and seemingly weaker children. All over the world, except for a select few, the biggest problem for any one person is the abuse of power.

Not only relationship-wise, people who have the internet or a computer use it to fashion 'incurable' computer viruses and send them through deceptively harmless e-mails. Teenagers who have a few extra dollars than their friends use money to buy goods just to spite their monetarily-unequal peer. Me? I've had my share too... including speaking other languages to get through a heavily-crowded area. It seems that whenever we can, we'd use our power to our advantage... I mean, that's survival right? Even the angelic ones crumble in the face of immense temptation, and the saints, in times of desperate need.

Jesus was about to die. And he was about to die for people who were laughing at Him, mocking Him and even spitting on Him. It wasn't His burden to bear, so why did God want Him to die for undeserving humans? Who were created from dust and could just as easily be returned to dust. Behind Him, hordes of angels flew in military-order waiting for Jesus to say the word and they would all swoop down and slaughter all of the sinners. At His command, the Earth would have blown up!

But you know what, He didn't.

He stayed on that cross. And I think that's the crux of the story... that He stayed on that cross. For you and me (:

God be praised for that.