Today’s essay is actually an excerpt from the book “Jayber Crow” by author, farmer and poet Wendell Berry. In the passage Crow, the title character, speaks of his association with the crowd at the foot of the cross. Crow is tempted to be just like the throng and call for Christ to come down off the cross and reveal his true power. But Crow laments what he knows to be true, “I knew the answer. I knew it a long time before I could admit it, for all the suffering of the world is in it. He didn’t , he hasn’t, because from the moment he did, he would be the absolute tyrant of the world and we would be His slaves.”
Giving into their and admittedly our worldly demands would have made Christ our overlord instead of our beloved Lord and Savior. We claim to want God to step in and just stop all the bad stuff, but we really want is what that crowd wanted. We want Jesus to be the hero of our opinions of OUR bad situation. Christ appears weak because that is His strength. It is in the ordinary that we should look and will truly find Jesus.