Disturbed

Before I say anything else, I'd like to share a story I read a couple days ago while doing some pleasure reading in my freetime(I'm homeschooled. That's what we do for fun, that and making our own clothes,memorizing chapters of the book of Leviticus, and oh don't forget to milk the cows!!). What I read really bothered me where I almost felt uncomfortable. The story tells of an act of humiliation, set in the years before World War 2 ,by Nazi storm troopers who had captured an elderly Jewish rabbi. They brought the man into headquarters, where in the back of the big room he was carried to, a fellow Jew was being beaten to death. As he watched this, the captors stripped him naked and forced him to preach the sermon he had prepared for the coming Sunday in the Synagogue.He asked if he could wear his yarmulke. The Nazi's saw it all as a joke and gladly gave it over ,mocking him even more. As he, trembling fearful, talked on about walking humbly with God, the Nazi's jeered his humiliated frame and had him turned to see the killing of his fellow Jewish neighbor while he spoke. After reading this, I had no idea at first what to take from it. Then, as I kept on reading, the author compared this naked, humiliated rabbi in front of horrid persecution to that of our Jesus, hanging on a cross.The Most High despised by the world. Jesus Christ being spit upon. Mocked to the point that we placed a painful joke of a crown on the Saviour's brow. The words 'King of the Jews' above His head as he suffocated. The flogging and the cries of hate. The spitting and strikes to the very face of God! How can we even understand the shame, the torture,the exucution of Jesus?A thought comes to mind-we know of love and we know of disturbance. But, do we know of love so great it disturbs us? If we know Jesus, we very well should. His love turned to sacrifice- of Himself for us. I challenge you to let the love of Jesus disturb you. Don't EVER get over what He did for you. Keep near the cross,thinking of his scarred hands often,His blood shed, and overall His disturbing love which was displayed thru the cross.