Dec 07 2005
An Instrument of Torture is a Thing of Beauty
How odd is it that for Christians, an object created to torture prisoners to death has become an object of great beauty? Execution by crucifixion must have been a horrendous, bloody thing.
I’m continually struck by how the things of faith make so little sense to to a dying world: Faith in a God you’ve never seen? Ridiculous. You live in this God and he lives in you? (John 15:5) Pretty stupid! You get up on Sunday morning and go to church rather than sleeping in? Forget about it!
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
(1 Corinthians 1:18-19, NIV)
(Photo courtesy of Always Thirsty and Dave at Found Crosses. This is from the Nombre de Dios mission in St Augustine.)
