In the end we always get what we want. The crowd that gathered before Pilate had a choice between Jesus and Barabbas. Barabbas was a revolutionary zealot. These were the men who tore the nation apart with their infighting in the years leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. Their agenda would lead the nation to ruin. Jesus had pleaded with them to go the opposite way to where Barabbas and his friends (two of whom would be crucified beside Jesus) were leading the nation. Jesus was calling the people away from the path of violence to the way of peace. So whom would they choose? They chose Barabbas. And in the end they got what they chose. This same crowd of people would one day be besieged in this same city; they would be so starved that some would be driven to cannibalism; and those who survived the internal battles would be killed by the Romans. Jesus did not want this to happen. But how we live our lives is our choice in the end. This people got the end that they chose on that day. They chose their role model and they chose their destiny. God does not want anyone to die and face judgement. He could not have paid a higher price to prevent this than he did in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But in the end we get the fate that we chose in this life. What is your choice?
Express your choice to God.
Read Luke 22:66-23:25
