AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS

I AWOKE THIS MORNING WITH SOMETHING ON MY MIND SO POWERFUL I HAD TO WRITE IT DOWN BEFORE I COULD EVEN START MY DAY.

I KNEW THERE MUST BE SOME REASON WHY THE FOOT OF THE CROSS COULD BE SO IMPORTANT. I KNOW WHY IT IS ,IN A SENSE , BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE YOU LAY ALL YOUR SINS. BUT THINGS LIKE JESUS SPEAKING ABOUT THE FOOT OF THE TABLE KEEP CREEPING UP IN MY MIND. THERE HAD TO BE A REASON WHY JESUS KELP REFERRING TO THE FOOT OF THE TABLE. I KNEW IMMEDIATELY JESUS WAS SPEAKING ABOUT HIMSELF WHEN HE TOLD THIS PARABLE. AFTER ALL WHOM WAS MORE HUMBLE THAN JESUS.

IN MY MIND I DEBATE THIS FACT OVER AND OVER. IS THAT HOW WE COME INTO THIS WORLD AT TH FOOT OF THE TABLE? AFTER ALL WE ARE BORN WITHOUT SIN OR ARE WE? I AWAYS HEARD THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO TEACH A CHILD TO BE A SINNER BUT WE DO HAVE TO TEACH THEM HOW NOT TO. IF WE ARE BORN NATURAL SINNERS THEN HOW DID JESUS ESCAPE THE TENDENCIES TO SIN THAT WE ARE ALL BORN WITH? WE ALL KNOW THAT HE DIED WITHOUT EVER SINNING.

HE NEVER EXALTED HIMSELF OVER ANY THING AND FACED FEAR IN A MIGHTY HUMBLE WAY. HE ALWAYS SEATED HIMSELF SO THAT HE WAS JUST A GUEST AND WAITED TO BE INVITED TO THE HEAD OF THE TABLE. HE STILL SITS AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH OF OUR TABLES AND WAITS ON US TO INVITE HIM TO THE HEAD OF OUR TABLE. THE SHEAR MAGNITUDE OF HIS INNOCENCE SOMETIMES EVADES ALL UNDERSTANDING. WHY WOULD ANY HUMANE BEING GO THROUGH WHAT HE WENT THROUGH FOR A WEAK MINDED PERSON LIKE ME.

IF YOU HAD BEEN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS AND LOOKED UP WHAT YOU SAW WOULD HAVE TERRIFIED YOU SO THAT THAT SLEEP MIGHT NEVER COME AGAIN. TO SEE A FRAIL AND NUB OF A MAN HANGING BREATHING HIS LAST BREATHE, BLEEDING PROFUSELY, AND TORTURED BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION. YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT HIS FLESH WAS SCULPTURED TO HORRIFY ONLOOKERS SO THEY WOULD FLEE IN TERROR. THIS MAN WOULD HAVE BEEN CARVED UP SO BAD, SO THAT THE ROMANS COULD MAKE A POINT TO THE PEOPLE, THAT REVOLT WAS FUTILE. THE NAILS OR SPIKES WERE USED TO STRIKE SHOCK AND HORROR IN THE HEARTS OF ALL WHO SAW OR HEARD ABOUT HIS DEATH . THIS EXECUTION WAS DESIGNED TO STRIKE FEAR IN THE STRONGEST OF HEARTS. JESUS BEING MUCH MORE OF A THREAT THAN ANY ORDINARY THIEF. THEY WOULD HAVE MADE A EXAMPLE OF HIM SO ALL HOPE WOULD DIE WITH HIM. TORTURING HIM BEYOND ANY ORDINARY MAN, KEEPING HIM ALIVE AS LONG AS THEY COULD TO PARADE HIM BEFORE THE PEOPLE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THEIR POWER. I CAN IMAGINE THAT THE DEVIL WAS LAUGHING UNCONTROLLABLY THINKING HE HAD WON AND DEFEATED THE GREAT AND POWERFUL GOD.

ALL THAT MEN HAD DEDICATED, EVERY THING THEY OWNED , AND MENTALLY PRAISED WAS DIEING BEFORE THEIR EYES. THEIR SAVIOUR WAS SUDDENLY JUST A MAN. HOW THEY MUST HAVE GRIEVED. HOW GLOOMY THE EARTH MUST HAVE SEEMED AS DREAMS WERE BEFORE THE ON LOOKER'S EYES AND SUDDENLY AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS THE MOST MELANCHOLY DAY IN THE HISTORY OF MAN.

THE MOVIE THE PASSION PROBABLY ONLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE OF THIS MAN'S TORTURE AND TORMENT. IF ONLY THE ROMANS COULD SEE THE FUTURE THEY WOULD HAVE SAW THAT THIS VERY DISPLAY OF THEIR POWER AND MIGHTY FORM OF PUNISHMENT, WOULD BE A TOOL, THAT REACHES OUT THROUGH SO MANY GENERATIONS DOING EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY HAD HOPED TO ACHIEVE. THE CROSS BEING THE SYMBOL OF HOPE AND PROSPERITY. WHO COULD HAVE ENGINEERED SUCH A PLAN? WHAT WAS MAN'S MOST DISPIRITED DAY BECAME THE MOST SPIRITED DAY IN MANKIND'S EXISTENCE. THREE DAYS OF PAIN, TORTURE, AND DEATH COMES THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE COMFORTER, NEW HOPE, RENEWED GLORY, NEW POWER, AS THE PROMISES OF GOD BECOME ALIVE.