Reflection #4

I'm loving my Glo. I think I know why I can't access web content....Click on image for better look I think

But have a look at that photo. Imagine Jesus looking down at the cross and looking at everyone there. He would have a pretty good view.

From Mark 15:31-32 tghe teachers of the law said  "He saved others but he can't save himself! Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe."

Thats us, mocking Jesus. Everyone who jsut toss asides God's love on a cross and laughs at the weakness that Jesus would show on teh cross. We do this by not obeying his commands and not placing all our trust in him. "You couldn't save yourself Jesus from death! How can you save me? Why should I follow you?". Or maybe we're a crowd that's just like "Psst, i'm holy and good enough. I don't need some son of a carpetnder to die for me! if he's truely son of God, then he msut show himself to me!". Either way, the Son of God is there on the cross before us, and we are unmoved and simply tell our donkeys, doesn't matter lets go get drunk now.

He might look a bit to the right and see the soldiers. The men who put him up on the cross.

Mark 15:16-20 is the mocking of Jesus by the soldiers which can be summarise by the last line."Then they led him out to crucify him". That's us. Not jsut the Romans who throught this was another rebel to put down. We're out there hammering that nail in. Our sin put him up on that cross. Hammering every nail in to keep him in place.

But Jesus looked past all of this and what does he do?

He prays for us moments before he is arrested in John 17-20-22 "I pray also for those who will beleive in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be as one as we are one."

The Son of God. The one that was there before creation. Exalted on high, now on earth about to die by the flawed creation that is man. That is the sinner. Yet he prays for the sinner to be reconciled with God. Reconciled with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.With this followed by a silent amen, it becomes fulfilled with a quiet and sad:

"It is finished" John 19:30

But that's not it. Also from the cross, he sees his tomb. But it isn't closed! It's open with two angels next to it!


"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee?" said the angels in Luke 24:6-7

Jesus knew he was to be risen and he knew what had to be done to save humanity. Live die and rise again.

They say "Rise, rise and rise again until lambs become lions" ... Well reeally on Robin Hood's dad said that lol. Well God said to Jesus "Live and Die on Earth, And Rise so Man is Saved."


It's not over with his death. He rose again to give us hope. He rose again and looks toward us, our hearts hardened like the high priests and our hearts purely pointed towards His own death. What does he say ?

"For God did not send His Son to condemn the world, but to save it through him." John 3:17.

And even the people, us, who put him up on the cross are saved. Because he stepped down from teh cross and with his arm reaching for us, he said "I love you.".


And to finish off with an anti-climax and product promotion, Glo is a great interactive bible! Pretty much this post jsut comes straight out of one of their databases with their captions on their pictures. It's quite useful :D