Unrecognizable. There as He lay on the cross, limp, covered with raw and dried blood from hours before.
Unrecognizable. After hours of being beaten, tortured, mocked, degraded, and left for nearly dead.
Unrecognizable. Said to not even been seen to look like a human being.
Unrecognizable. To the point where He wasn't seen by his peers as the man He was.
As i write this, i feel like it's all too eerily familiar. Jesus, the very man who underwent extreme agony to save the very lives and souls of those who outright disobey and deny Him, is still as unrecognizable in many ways today.
In our current society, everywhere we turn, people deny Jesus, and His love for us. They don't see Him for who He is. They don't recognize the unconditional love He had and has for us. They don't recognize the ultimate sacrifice He made for us. They don't recognize Him because, just like 2000 years ago, the truth is covered in sin, earlier as blood. Denial and deception, earlier as the scars and scorns of mockery and hate. Society's tainting on our lives, earlier just as the wounds that masked Jesus' figure.
In that same way, Jesus' love, salvation, and truth are all covered and made unrecognizable.
As I write this, I have to ask myself, "whose fault is it?" Are we the ones
making Him and His love for us unrecognizable? Are people turned off by His message
of salvation because we are Christians who are tainted and covered with deception?
We say we love Christ, and claim to be Christian, but we live and act like someone else behind
closed doors. We sin, act two-faced, and muddy the image of Jesus for those who
do or don't believe in Him. Are we the blood, sin, and wounds that taint the message
and image of Christ.
The reality of the whole situation is this: Are we making Jesus
UNRECOGNIZABLE?
-Noelle Beesley
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