Happy Valentine's Day. Never forget the source of love.
The other day, a piece of poetry from one of my favorite band's frontman popped into my head. I am not going to post any scripture here, but instead, read this and dwell on it.
Never forget that when they all love you there is something awry. Every scapegoat was once a star, and every start will soon fall. Let us never forget, again, that we all love to celebrate the failure of our heroes. We live in a world of scapegoats because we all want the same things in our evil, evil hearts. Let us never forget that the same crowd that cheers at your triumphant entry will be be the ones that crucify you in the end. And in the search for a moral, consider: The very thing that is worth dying for is the very thing they will hate you for.
Do you cheer Christ's triumphant entry in the morning and then turn your back on him as day breaks or as night falls?
Scapegoat - a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
Crowds welcome Him in Jerusalem, waving palm branches, giving their best, and saying his name and praising his name, but in the end of his physical life, he carries a cross through the same streets he entered triumphantly before, receiving beatings, being strung up on a cross, and being forsaken by his Father.
Is Christ worth dying for? We were obviously worth it to him. Everything He had was pushed aside and took death for our sins.
Society hates us for carrying out God's will, just as society hated Christ before they crucified Him.
Scripture reference: Mark 11:1-11 and Luke 23:26-49
Writing by Andrew Schwab from 'We Caught You Plotting Murder'.
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