Crushed by Love
I have been a Christian for nearly as long as I can remember. I attended Sunday School with my Grandparents most Sundays from the time I was very young, so I am more than familiar with what Christ did for us on the cross on the day we now call Good Friday. I have read the accounts of Jesus' crucifixion hundreds of times and watched The Passion of Christ in all its painful detail. Despite all this I found myself crushed by something I heard on the radio this morning. It wasn't really a song as much as a verbal telling of all Jesus endured between His arrest and death on the cross. We know that Jesus was beaten and mocked, He was spit on and scorned, and at last He was nailed to the cross between two thieves like a common criminal. But how often do we stop to think about what that really entailed? I can only speak for myself, and to be honest, I don't think about it very often. It isn't a pleasant thing to think on, that Jesus, the only perfect person to walk t