One Solitary Life

Pawhuska, OK USA - Opinion

The fact that Jesus of Nazareth existed is something that no person in their right mind can dispute. Who he was, and to many of us who he is, can be summed up in the following much published excerpt. Although there is far more to Jesus than anyone can ever explain, it is my opinion that this description of him is by far one of the best. Think about the words here during this most holy of weeks.

One Solitary Life

Let us turn now to the story. A child is born in an obscure village. He is brought up in another obscure village. He works in a carpenter shop until he is thirty, and then for three brief years is an itinerant preacher, proclaiming a message and living a life. He never writes a book. He never holds an office. He never raises an army. He never has a family of his own. He never owns a home. He never goes to college. He never travels two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He gathers a little group of friends about him and teaches them his way of life. While still a young man, the tide of popular feeling turns against him. One denies him; another betrays him. He is turned over to his enemies. He goes through the mockery of a trial; he is nailed to a cross between two thieves, and when dead is laid in a borrowed grave by the kindness of a friend.

Those are the facts of his human life. He rises from the dead. Today we look back across nineteen hundred years and ask, What kind of trail has he left across the centuries? When we try to sum up his influence, all the armies that ever marched, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned are absolutely picayune in their influence on mankind compared with that of this one solitary life…

I have nothing to add to this but - think about it.

Michael

Holy Week Meditation - One Solitary Life

Date: 04/02/07

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