Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 51-58
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” 3 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” 4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.” 5 But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.” Luke 23 2-5
So profoundly did he disturb the status quo that they determined to do away with him…
The same evil passion influences our own contemporary attitudes to Jesus. He is still as C.S.Lewis called him, ‘a transcendental interferer’. We resent his intrusions into our privacy, his demand for our homage, his expectation of our obedience. Why can’t he mind his own business, we ask petulantly, and leave us alone? To which he instantly replies that we are his business and that he will never leave us alone. So we too perceive him as a threatening rival, who disturbs our peace, upsets our status quo, and undermines our authority and diminishes our self-respect. We too want to get rid of him. | Stott pg. 51,58
What ways has the ‘transcendental interferer’ upset your ‘status quo’?
Lord, I pray that you would intrude into the deepest parts of my heart. See me as I am, and show me what I am holding onto that keeps me from loving You more fully. Amen