LIFE SCRIPTS

Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “You have said so,” Jesus replied. The chief priests accused him of many things. So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.” But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed. Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did. “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate, knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead. “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them. “Crucify him!” they shouted. “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!” Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Mark 15:1‭-‬15 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mrk.15.1-15.NIV.

Christ was led to crucifixion in utter Humility.

Imagine the Son of God being accosted by a mob to the palace of a wicked ruler to be judged…

Imagine the Son of God being exchanged with a convicted criminal with a well known track record of insurrection…

Imagine the pile of accusations the mob hurled at Christ knowing well that He was innocent.

Christ had the right to respond.

He had the right to answer but He didn’t.

He chose to hold His peace and let them be.

He knew that the time had come…

The time scripture had spoken of was there with them.

Christ demonstrated true humility as depicted in Philippians 2.

He humbled Himself before men and before God.

Humbling ourselves before God might seem easier because He’s awesome and great.

But most times, the true test of humility comes when we are humiliated by fellow men.

Do we choose to retaliate or do we echo the words of Christ on the cross, ‘Forgive them…’

It’s no easy thing to be humbled.

But as we humble ourselves, God will lift us up just as the story of Christ ended up in exaltation after being humbled at the cross.