"The Jewish leaders replied, 'By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.'When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever." ~John 19:7-8, NLT
I know that I write here to combat fear, but I think that this verse shows a simple, important, missed fact. God is scary. I know, He's good, and what He does is always in the best interest for humanity. There's always the age-old question, if that is true and God is good, why do bad things happen? Simply, Christians do stupid things and attribute them to God. Crusades, Inquisition, anyone? And I quote Jordan "Blimey Cow" (look him up on Youtube, you won't regret it unless your sarcasm detector is broken and you take all things at face value) - God doesn't want to and doesn't take the credit for all of the stupid things people, especially Christians, do. God is the creator of the Universe - doesn't that put some things in perspective? Doesn't that scare you? Maybe you should rethink this whole Christian business. Again I quote "Blimey Cow" - God is love and love is terrifying. Christians should be some of the scared-est people ever. Or at least scariest, because think about it - we serve God.
Pilate up there, he was scared of God's son. And we serve Jesus. Who was God. People, if Pilate, the highest form of Roman power that Jesus came into contact with, was frozen with fear (check some of the other versions) imagine how the Emperor would have felt! "You're God's son and you're leading a rebellion in Israel against me? I'm doomed!" It should be occurring to you that part of the reason people ridicule Christianity is because they're scared to death that we could be right. They're scared to death that they actually don't have any control over their lives (which can be scary for us sometimes too...) and that an invisible, living God could be calling them to abandon their illusion of power and control.
By the law of the world we should die because we serve God. But don't worry, all the anger and hatred is just a way of covering up fear. And you don't have anything to fear, because remember? You're the one serving God! Which is pretty scary sometimes. But at least you don't have all of the things of the world to fear in addition to God zapping you with judgement. (PS: He doesn't usually do it that way. But He will on Judgement day.)
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