Easter Meditations: Striking at Truth

The Crowning With Thorns, by Michael D. O'Brien

The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” 

“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” 

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?” 

“He is worthy of death,” they answered. 

Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah. Who hit you?”                              Matt. 26:63-68

Such a horrific, dramatic and sad scene. People didn't realize that they were slapping God in human form. The needless cruelty, the bullying, the sarcasm ... how much to people direct that in God's direction still today?

It doesn't occur to them that he may have been telling the truth.

What if he was what he said he was? What if those who say angry things about God, who strike out at Him, who are sarcastic about Him will see Jesus, as he described it, sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming in the clouds of heaven? What then?

The unimaginable has happened in all of our lives in some form. Things we never thought would happen to us, have come to be. Why not this? It seems to me that we should be at least somewhat circumspect, somewhat respectful of the fact that that He could have been telling the truth.

The implications of that call for silence, and sober consideration.