What could be the purpose that God destined Simon to share the cross with Christ?. In the Gesthsemene garden Jesus prayed that this suffering be taken away if God wills it to be so but then He was made to suffer. At this juncture many can have two possible questions 1. Why is that Jesus alone could not bear it when Simon carried it? 2. Today's world has thrusted more pain than this to an individual man , in cases like military torture, kidnapping and torturing etc but why say that Jesus's pain alone could save us?
God uses Simon, a representative of man, to say to our mind what difference the cross had between a man and Jesus.
Jesus could not bear it, He fell down three times but on the other hand Simon carried it. All of us think as cross as more of a wood that is been thrusted on Him. But the reality is that it is not the woody cross that meant the pain of bearing but it is our sins and the heaviness of what satan had made so special for only Jesus to bear and suffer. If the cross and the suffering means same to all of us then why alone God would have send His only son? Yes it is all for this one special cross that no body on earth could ever even feel. The reality of what the cross meant was revealed only to Jesus and that is why Simon could carry it in ease while Jesus couldn't. Satan had swapped so much of torture in that one cross, just that Jesus would suffer in silence that which no man on world could ever have borne. A question to ponder. Would satan have declared such lawful war that man would still keep believing him?. He had deceived man to look Jesus's suffering as more of a common place affair there by getting the axe right at the base of faith that Jesus suffered for our sins.
Thus what ever we saw Jesus undergo is just the tip of an iceberg. The reality is divine secret. Thus believe in God , in Jesus, in the Holy spirit and in the true sole reality that Jesus did suffer for our sins which we had have never borne. He saved us suffering in silence, he redeemed us going through the unimagined severity of pain
Oh My God anni, this thought of what exactly did Jesus go through at the cross, seems so much similar to what Paul Washer said in his message. Great mind think alike eh :) You can listen to it at http://www.heartcrymissionary.com/resources/sermons/paul_washer
ReplyDeleteI think it is the "Meaning of the Cross" message.