The Message
It is amusing to imagine them tying the Lord of Hosts, the One who tells the mountains where to ascend to the heavens and the trees how far to spread their leaves, and thinking that they had everything under control. It'd be like taking sidewalk chalk onto the interstate and coloring a little stop sign on the roadbed. Cars might stop there, but only because they choose to -- it wouldn't be because your sign was so commanding. In the same way, this rope didn't have any power over Jesus Christ, the One who will ride on the last day to liberate humanity from evil's last dying grasp. It bound Jesus because he was willing to be bound by it, because he was willing to submit himself to what it meant, because he loved you enough to be bound. That's the only reason the rope could hold him. Pilate was impressed, maybe because he started to understand what true power really was. Jesus Christ demonstrated power by a willingness to give up power, a power shown in perfect love.
Do you know that you are loved, perfectly?
No matter what happens in life, you are held in love and power, and nothing can take that from you.
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