Behold the man! Jesus on the Cross is a picture of defeat, or so it seems. And yet, his crucifixion and death speaks to me of how great his love for humanity as to embrace the humiliating death on the cross. For it is only through the cross that man can be saved and restored to new life.
By embracing the cross, Jesus teaches us that it is also possible for us to carry our own crosses.
It is but understandable for us to flinch at the first sign of suffering, of trials that come our way. Human nature would naturally lean towards what is easy and pleasurable. We seek happiness and a problem-free existence. However, our fallen nature has seen to it that such cannot be possible. So we have our share of crosses in the forms of trials, sufferings, illnesses and other types of difficulties.
Let us fix our gaze at the broken body of Our Lord hanging on the Cross when we are tempted at times to give up; when we feel we have been pushed too far at the edge; when our woundedness get the better of us; when we have fallen flat so many times we find it hard to get up again.
Jesus had been there ahead of us. He had embraced our humanity, suffered our sins, died for us, all because of his crazy love for us.
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