Just Suppose....

Just suppose that when Christ came to live on the earth, He was not hated. Suppose for a moment that everyone loved Him and wished Him well. Choose to think that the Pharisees would pat Him on the back as a gesture of affirmation and the Sadducees would be so bold as to give Him a "high five" for His wisdom and insight. Possibly Judas would have loved Him so much that money would have not been an issue. He would not have betrayed Him because no one would have asked Him to. There would have been no reason at all for Him to be put on trial, whipped and beaten beyond recognition, made to carry a cross down the via Dolorosa and crucified on Calvary. WRONG!!!!! Our love did not crucify Him, our sins did. Our affection and admiration did not spare him from the cross. It was our affinity for disobedience that drove those three spikes into His hands and feet. We love Him today but we still succumb to the temptation to sin. We are jealous, bitter, judgemental, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, etc. Nothing has changed. He gives, we take. Isn't it time to grow. Isn't it time to stop living in disobedience and making useless sacrifices that He does not need and usually does not want. The only sacrifice He desires is "a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart" He will not despise. I guess supposing can change the picture for a moment but the end result has to be the same...His death = our life. Thanks be the Jesus!