So, I have to say that the Passion Play is probably my all-time favorite play. This is something I look forward to every year and is one of my favorite events...the other being the Bethlehem visit. I think that it's because of how seeing a reinactment of something makes it more real to me than when I read it in the Bible. (Go figure. :P) Don't get me wrong, I love reading my Bible and imagining what things were like, but it's cool to see how other people interpret the same passage of Scripture.
It also gives me a lot to think about. In the same way, reading my Bible confirms that what I see in the play actual happened - at a completely different intensity level. When I see the guards put Jesus on the cross, I wonder what it must have been like. I always cry during this part of the play, but what would I have done that day? Would I have cried at His feet or would I have gone along with the crowd even though I knew it was wrong? I'd like to assume that I would defend Him - but what about Peter? He was one of Jesus' closest friends, and he DENIED it! Not once, but three times. How awful is that? I hope to never be like that.
It relates back to my daily life. How many times do I defend my faith? How many times do people ask me why I'm different? How many times do I deny Jesus...even in the quietness of my own room? How many times to I reject Him to fulfill some sinful desire? Christianity isn't just who you are at church, or the image you portray at school, or your knowledge of the Bible. It includes your intimate moments with Christ - the defining ones. The ones where you have a choice. A choice that is so obviously between right and wrong, and you so obviously choose the wrong one. I don't want to do that...and I don't have to. The sad thing is that I choose to. I choose to be sarcastic or yell at my siblings for some little thing. I may not SAY that I don't like someone, but maybe I think it. That's the same thing. Jesus looks at your thought life as well as the life you live...the weird thing is that they're connected. What you think will come out in your actions one way or another.
So as I sit and wait to watch a portrayal of what my Savior did for me years ago, I'm filled with the resolve to always remember. To always remember and never forget that what He did should affect what I do every single day of my life.
1 comment:
the play was really powerful, and it's convicting, too. I've also wondered about what I would have done if I had been at Calvary. But then I realize that it's my sin that necessitated His crucifixion in the first place, and that's so convicting. You're right, it should really change the way we live. Thank you for the blog, Rina.
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