Communion #18

“He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

Luke 23:35

We all desire to see the power of God in our lives. We face hardships and we believe with the best faith we can summons that He can annihilate and conquer these struggles. But what happens when healing doesn’t come as we thought it would. We lament that if God is able, as in He has the capability to, why would He not act? After all, the absence of intervention affirms the atheist in their convictions, not ours.  

Jesus on the day of the cross was also faced with this same question. Didn’t the fact that He could not alleviate himself from this predicament of the cross, nullify his sovereignty? 

They didn’t know at the time that such an action would have nullified His love for us. And so He endured such remarks, such slander. Because His goal was not to prove himself. His goal was to love.