Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which has been brought on me, which the Lord has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger. Lamentations 1:12
Although the world can barely contain the volume of scholarly books written about the cross of Jesus Christ, it is not primarily, nor should it be, a subject for academic inquiry. The death of the Son of God on a Roman cross is rather something to reverently behold. Behold and see, with the eyes of faith.
God is certainly speaking to us all the time, but He speaks most forcefully out of the stillness, at those times and in those places when the other “noises” of life have been quieted. When the jeering had stopped, when the gawking crowds had largely dispersed, when the garments had been gambled away—it was then the centurion was able to stop, look and listen. And his response simply but forcefully sums up all the writings in all the scholarly books when he said, “Surely, this man was the Son of God.”
