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Seven Final Sayings of Jesus: #1 'Forgive'
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04/12/2010
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Jesus said, “Father, forgive these people! They don’t know what they’re doing.”
Who decided on the order? Which of the soldiers thought Jesus would look best in the middle? Perhaps the two criminals were caught red-handed on their last job and had a falling out with each other. Maybe the only way to shut them up was to put the quiet guy with the messiah complex in between.
Soldiers, thieves, those hammering in the nails, those gaping at the spectacle: no one in this first Easter scene knows quite what they are doing. Forgive them, says Jesus, as the nails bite, forgive them--They don’t get it.
Of all the low-lives to be caught by the long arm of the law, these two nobodies get to hang right in the middle of history! They had never lived with Jesus, like Peter or Mary or Judas. Instead they get to die with him. No chance to give him their lives. Only their deaths.
We are ignorant until Jesus Christ appears and fills our field of vision. All of us watching, gasping, averting our eyes, wishing those weren’t real nails, that this had not been our shift, hoping we can put this behind us and move on. Trying to find words to express our feelings. Not quite sure what we are doing. Not knowing we could ask for forgiveness. Not knowing someone else has. In this first word from the cross is the truth about the full extent of our ignorance overcome by the fuller extent of God’s love.
- Pastor Jeannette Conver
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