The Conversation between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection

Jesus dropped the bombshell of revelation into the Valley of Tears in the “conversation” that took place between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. A beautiful, symbiotic dance of question and answer weaved its way through his bloody wounds to bind the Crucifixion and the Resurrection together into the conversation. The Crucifixion was the sharp question that we shouted at him. The Resurrection was the gentle answer that he whispered back to us. The truth that emerged from the “conversation” between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection illuminated the darkness of our understanding of God in a glorious burst of epiphany. ARE YOU PRIVY TO THE CONVERSATION? Can you articulate it?

“Who are you, Jesus? Identify yourself! Friend or foe?

We tortured and killed him. He suffered and died. Yet, he did not stay dead and did not stop loving us. He emerged from the dead still alive and still in love with us. That he emerged from the dead still alive is the indisputable proof of his power. Nobody emerges from the dead. He did. That he emerged from the dead still in love with us is the indisputable proof that our conception of divinity as power is incomplete. Divinity is also love - a mysteriously intransigent, inexplicably persistent and radically stubborn love (Isaiah 55:8-9) (Psalm 8:4-8) (Jeremiah 31:3).