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A perspective about "The Passion" PART1

Now that I have had 5 days to reflect upon "The Passion of the Christ" I think that I have found some words.  Several thoughts dominate my mind.  My primary observation is that Jesus loves no matter what.  The secondary observations about His strength of obedient conviction, and also the artistic symbolism will be touched in subsequent messages.

Can you love no matter what?  

When things are at the worst ... that is when people need you at your best, but when I experience things at the worst, often what people get out of me is the worst.  That is why I say that my true condition is not revealed when everything is fine.  Our true conditions are revealed in stress, and calamity.  

The movie depicts the worst circumstance that I can imagine ... the whole thing is grossly unjust.  Wrong, wrong, wrong ... is the feeling as justice is skirted in the haste to do away with Jesus.  Then the flogging, scourging, mocking, abuse, taunting, and brutal violence heaps despair upon gut-wrenching despair.   And as the atrocities climax ... what comes out of Christ?  What is revealed about Him at the worst circumstance?

"Father, forgive them." He prays over and over.  

Do you sense the gravity of that remark or has frequent repetition muted the meaning?  Surely there is more to that statement then the impression that underwelms us, who have heard it hundreds of times at church.

Forgive them why?  ... because they deserve it?   

I want to be loved by someone who is not going to wait for me to deserve it.  I want someone that won't retaliate, and stubbornly loves selflessly even when I am far from innocent.   I want the Jesus depicted in the film ... that I can strike and wound, scratch and kick ... and His eyes pierce me with radical love.

It is that quality of Love that I have found in Christ ... hundreds of times.  It has broken my rock hard heart.  I have become a broken man, as a rebel who has been forgiven of much by God's reckless love for me.

I am David ... I would murder the innocent to have what I desire. 
I am Peter, who would drown, out of faith, though I walked upon the water.

Black as coal, but made white as snow, but the red blood of Christ.  There are no secrets in that love, nor do I wish for there to be.  Love, Joy, Peace, without a mask to hide a single flaw.  I am so grateful.

(stay tuned for my other perspectives)  

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