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TITLE: The Day Jesus Fell | Previous Challenge Entry
By Patrick Verbeten
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The cross, the tomb, the resurrected Christ, and now His ascension into heaven. What a month it has been. Everyone watched as Jesus began to ascend just as He said He would. Snap! Crash! There lay Jesus on the ground. Everyone froze. It was as if time itself also stood still. But then, tentatively at first, ever so slowly, Jesus began to pick himself up off the sanctuary floor. Like the prophets of old said, not a bone was broken. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Jesus, played by my son-in-law, was ascending into heaven during that fateful practice. By God’s grace, he was only a few feet off the ground when the cable snapped. In several pervious productions he had ascended the thirty plus feet into the rafters where he could hop on a catwalk and get down in time for the curtain call. But not this time. Though the fall was not considerable, it was enough to keep him from ascending in any future productions.
This wasn’t the only time our Jesus fell either. Picture the cross, the chorus, the colored lights drawing the spectators’ attention to the center cross, on which Jesus was nailed, being thrust into the ground. The impact caused the nail - which is actually a device which the actor uses to hold himself on the cross - to drop off the cross, taking Jesus with it. The hand and arm were going down, and the bruised, bloodied body would be soon to follow were it not for a quick thinking Roman soldier. Without missing a beat, without an ounce of compassion, he used his spear to get that hand and that man back on the cross. If the onlookers noticed, they didn’t let on.
There’s a little actor-Jesus in all of us. When we fall, and we all will, we need to evaluate our undertaking and decide if it is worth the risk. Would our life-production be worth the threat of a broken neck or a crushed spirit? At other times, like our center-stage Jesus, we need to go with the flow and press on, trusting Lord Jesus to cover over our missteps. Unlike our Roman guard, though, Jesus’ quick thinking will be filled with compassion overflowing, and with grace in abundance.
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