What brought Christ to the cross?
Feb 18th, 2008 |
Whatever else is to be made of it, everyone feels that the Cross stands out [as] a hideous tragedy, a dreadful fact … upon our human records.
“They have crucified the Lord of Glory!” gasps St. Paul in horror. And as often as it comes in sight of Calvary, the heart of humankind echoes that shuddering cry, stands rooted to the spot, staring incredulously at what can’t be true; yet there it really is!
How did it happen, this appalling thing? What sudden orgy of insanity overwhelmed for one mad day the kindly human nature that we know so well, and swept it headlong into this? Yet the last haunting terror of it is that it was brought about by ordinary mortals like ourselves.
—Adapted from a sermon by Dr. A.J. Gossip
