Youth’s
Insight
The word, EXCRUCIATE derived from two Latin words. Ex- and -crux. Ex = Exit and
Crux = Cross. Excruciate literally
means, out of the cross. Excruciating pain expresses the pain that is felt out
of / from the cross.
An excruciating pain is
defined as:
adjective
1. extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearablydistressing; torturing: an excruciating noise; excruciatingpain.
2. exceedingly elaborate or intense; extreme: done withexcruciating care.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/excruciating)
Through history, the most
intense and excruciating pain anyone can ever undergo is the pain at the
cross. Punishment at the cross simply brought justice to the worst criminal for
the worst crime that one can ever commit. The
pain and agony felt through our time cannot come close. As your body hung naked
on the tree, experiencing every aspect of pain, physical pain, mental pain, and
through all those pain, one may wonder, is there God? There are records of
criminals hung, crucified, lasting for a week and some may even go beyond
before breathing their last breath.
Crucifixion, although
closely related to the Romans, the Phoenicians and the Persians were actually
the first to implement such torture. However, it was the Romans who perfected
the torture by inflicting greater pain and suffering and lengthening the time
to endure the most agonizing pain for the longest time a person can endure
until death.
So youth, why am I
informing you this?
My intention of doing this
is not so that we should sympathize for those criminals that went through such
pain and humility. Justice was well served.
But I'm doing this to well
inform you on this, to give you insight that because of love, the One and only Son,
Jesus, who was innocent in all His nature, were made a criminal for you and I.
Jesus, who had no sin, became sin for you and me. Our crime deserve the cross,
yet, Jesus was willing to lay down His life, everything that He has so that you
and I would not go through all the excruciating pain, but may endure an eternal
life with Him in heaven. Friends, for God so love the world that He gave His
one and only Son, for whoever believes in Him will not perish but have an
everlasting life.
I find it ironic, yet at the
same time hysterical at how many of us want a long lasting life without earthly
excruciating pain, while the One who is an Eternal God, chose to leave
everything to go through this earthly excruciating pain so that we won’t have
to. Yet, many rejected Him.
So now has this been done?
Has the Son of God died as a sacrifice for our sin? Yes it has been done, and
the word that came from the lips of Jesus was, "It is finished!" – John 19:30. The long awaited prophecy of
the Jews was finished at the cross, the assurance that the lamb that became a
sacrifice for our sin have died on that cross. And friends, Jesus have laid His
life for you, will you believe in Him and give your life to Him today?
- A. F. Lolowang
- A. F. Lolowang
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