TAKE UP YOUR ELECTRIC CHAIR
Tradition tells us that when Jesus was a teenager, there was a rebellion near where He lived. The Roman army crushed the rebellion and crucified an Israelite every ten meters along a road for the distance of sixteen kilometers. The sight of some 1,760 people dead, or dying in agony, on crosses spaced every 30 feet for ten miles would have made an indelible impression on the mind of a teenager. Long before His Death, the Cross was for Jesus an ugly, hideous reality. If Jesus were speaking to us today He might well say not “Take up your cross” but “Take up your electric chair,” or “Take up your guillotine,” or “Take up your gallows.” Though none of these methods of execution comes close to the pain and disgrace connected with the Roman cross, using these modern terms would drive the message home to us with closer to the same effect of Jesus’ telling the people of His…
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