Last night we watched the Passion. I about popped during some of the torture scenes but I made it through without “spillin’ my cookies”.
I was taken back during the cross scene and I felt the best line in the whole movie was “my God…….my God why have you forsaken me?” Gibson caught this perfectly and convincingly. It truly conveyed the statement that God never left Jesus but this was Jesus first and only time when he couldn’t see Father because he became sin. It was a scream like that of a little child who lost his parents in a very strange and dangerous place and for me that made it very hard to watch. Today I celebrate His life. Today, while I must look back at the pure and perfect pain that He endured, I am free. Free from bondage to death. Free to walk with my Father and never have to be separated from Him screaming out “Daddy…. Daddy, I can’t find you!!”
Exposing Myself on a Regular Basis
“All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through: I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin: I talk of love -a scholar's parrot may talk Greek- But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin." - C S Lewis