Third Sunday of Lent

 

The Crowning with thorns

Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

I’d like to meet the person who came up with that!

Stones can break our bones.

And bones can heal.

But words pierce our hearts.

That can leave wounds that never heals.

No one would think about picking up a stone and throwing it at someone;

But many people do not hesitate to criticize and attack another person

Verbally on Socially Media.

It seems as if it is open warfare now.

As people attack each other verbally in social media and in conversations.

No one turns the other cheek,

Except Jesus!

After Jesus was scourged,

The soldiers slapped Him on one cheek and then on the other and then back again.

They spit in His face;

Laughed at Him and mocked Him.

And then placed a crown of thorns on the head of the King of Kings.

And how did Jesus respond to these verbal attacks?

He turned the other cheek.

For them to do it all over again.

The Creator allowed His creature to slap Him in the Face.

Isn’t this what our sin does.

It slaps God in the face

And what does God do?

God turns the other cheek!

If God Who is innocent and never did anything wrong can turn the other cheek,

Shouldn’t we?!