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Small Good Friday musing
Apr. 14th, 2006 06:12 pmWent to Good Friday service this morning, am glad because I keep on missing it. Mum & Dad and I all went together, a special effort because we won't be going on Sunday because lots of family things will make it too much.
The sermon was on the things Jesus said on the cross, especially "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." But one of the things which wasn't actually one of the main things that our pastor said, hit me, because I made a connection with something else. It was something about Jesus not speaking when he was tried, deliberately keeping silent, when if he'd spoken up, he wouldn't have been condemned. And also the whole "Jesus was doing the task God had set him" -- it was kind of like Jesus was God's secret agent, intent on his Mission (his Mission Impossible if you like), like God was tricking Satan into doing exactly what God wanted, even though God had already told everybody through the prophets that he was going to do all these great things (though he didn't say how).
And then something else struck me. I'd already figured it was kind of significant to me, what kind of story was my favourite kind of story; my favourite fairy stories usually have something in them about faithful silence (such as in the Wild Swans where the sister has to not say a word or the spell won't be broken) -- and I realized that they're all a type of Christ, who was faithfully silent in just that way, because to have spoken up would have ruined everything.
The sermon was on the things Jesus said on the cross, especially "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." But one of the things which wasn't actually one of the main things that our pastor said, hit me, because I made a connection with something else. It was something about Jesus not speaking when he was tried, deliberately keeping silent, when if he'd spoken up, he wouldn't have been condemned. And also the whole "Jesus was doing the task God had set him" -- it was kind of like Jesus was God's secret agent, intent on his Mission (his Mission Impossible if you like), like God was tricking Satan into doing exactly what God wanted, even though God had already told everybody through the prophets that he was going to do all these great things (though he didn't say how).
And then something else struck me. I'd already figured it was kind of significant to me, what kind of story was my favourite kind of story; my favourite fairy stories usually have something in them about faithful silence (such as in the Wild Swans where the sister has to not say a word or the spell won't be broken) -- and I realized that they're all a type of Christ, who was faithfully silent in just that way, because to have spoken up would have ruined everything.
