Who Am I? (Good Friday)

The cross is startling, repulsive, essential, holy, revealing. The passion scene of our Christ revealed many different elements of sin, selfishness, humility that can exist within the human heart. The brutal treatment of Christ revealed the putrid reality of sin that ravages mankind. In the scene around the cross we see the betrayer in Judas. How tragic that Judas never found his way to the foot of the cross, but destroyed himself in the final act of selfishness. How tragic that he was so close to Jesus for those years, and yet so far away. We see Peter who is the great denier. Bold and brash, but ultimately humiliated and isolated. Praise God he came to the foot of the cross in repentance and the Pentecostal fullness propelled him forward to a life of great fruitfulness in Christ's name. Coming to the cross there is one more person we need to see. The community called her a 'sinful woman'. Whatever all that means, her reputation reflected a lifestyle that was less than exemplary. But she came to Christ, humble, quiet, broken, thankful, apparently knowing something about Jesus that Judas and Peter still didn't grasp. Broken and spilled out has become the description of her worship. She worshiped. She was filled with awe and wonder of this Jesus who had loved her like she had never been loved. Sacrifice, extraordinary, reckless, totally oblivious to what anyone else was thinking, she did what the Lord said was 'beautiful.' A small picture of the 'beautiful' act that Christ exemplified with His perfect sacrifice. Who am I at this Easter season? The Father is seeking worshipers. Do I know what the 'sinful woman' knew about Jesus?