Most people want to get credit for what they do. Most people want to be remembered and recognized. Maybe this is why we have monument businesses and not tombstone businesses.
Some said last week the reason Professor Gates got so upset with Officer Crowley was because the officer did not know him or recognize him. There may be some truth to that.
I was watching Chuck Missler on god.tv last night and he was teaching from the end of the gospels where the resurrected Jesus goes unrecognized by his own disciples. I marvelled along with Dr. Missler at the depth of suffering Jesus went through for his body, and particularly his face, not to be recognized by his friends.
How much do you have to love someone to go through this? "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." (Isaiah 50: 6) How much do you love someone to know this is coming and still march towards it? The next verse, Isaiah 50:7 prophesies it and the gospels echo it. (Luke 9:51)
How much do you have to love someone to suffer this and more, knowing those for whom you do it will not recognize you or perhaps, never acknowledge your love? How much do you have to love someone to give your life for them whether they notice or not?
Jesus loved you and me that much.
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