Where Can We Find Answers?
Adapted from a leaflet distributed at York Minster, in England.
Life of course makes men and women ask questions. Why are people killed in wars and earthquakes? Why do people suffer cancer and insanity? Faith in Jesus Christ shows the direction in which the answers are to be found.
In one of the most cruel deaths men have devised, God appears to us. On the cross the Son of God carries the burden of the world's sin and suffering. He is submerged in human misery; yet to those who trust him, he gives a joy they could not make for themselves.
This man with outstretched arms and with nails through his hands is the signpost to the mystery of God. He is a truth more marvellous than anyone could imagine.
Questions for reflection/meditation
- How is it helpful to you to think that God is (or even might be) "submerged in human misery"?
- What helpful or hopeful information does the signpost of a crucified man give you about the nature of God? God's mystery?
- What might this meditation invite you to know about God and your relationship to God today?
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