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Topic: Illustrate the meaning of "Every Dark Cloud has a Silver Lining" (without using the actual phrase or literal example). (02/28/08)
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TITLE: Wait For the Happy Ending... | Previous Challenge Entry
By Kay Ramos
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The crowd watched and jeered as the Man was led through the mass of bodies. The people spat upon Him as He was brought to the grounds where He would endure the preliminary thrashings. He was punched, kicked, mocked and cursed all the way to the massive stony structure.
The crowd thinned as the Man was led into what appeared to be a stadium of some kind. A few people squeezed themselves into the makeshift observation area to watch the Man’s impending beating. The Man – the innocent Man – looked all around Him as best He could. He noticed the mossy stones that made up the towering structure. The lingering smell of death was ever present and ominous in that place, but the Man knew that His death would not take place there.
On their orders, the guards, after binding the Man’s hands and feet, walked over to the area where the tools of torture were stored and each one picked up an instrument with which to whip the Man who had unjustly become their prisoner. Just before they inflicted their pain upon Him, a few individuals walked up to the Man and stripped Him of His clothes and placed a scarlet robe upon His body. After that, they struck Him with a crown that was plaited of thorns before placing it on His weary head. Finally, they placed a reed in His hand and laughed at him in scorn, screaming out “Hail, King of the Jews!”
The Man was again unclothed and His previous garments were put back onto His tired frame. This Man, blood seeping from beneath His mangled hair, waited limp until the guards brought on the beating that they were ordered to give. They whipped Him with reeds, chains, wicked-looking hooked instruments that ripped at His flesh leaving puddles of red at His feet. When the guards felt it was enough, they untied Him and led the Man on to His final destination.
He drug His feet as He bore a cross of solid wood. He was to carry that cross until He arrived at the hill on which the guards would crucify Him. He wept, stumbled, and occasionally cried out in agony, but He knew that this was what He was born to do. The Man, now exhausted to the point of collapsing, started to lose His grip on the wooden burden He was dragging along behind Him. Another man by the name of Simon, outraged at the sight he was seeing, called out in sympathy that the Man may have been relieved. Appalled, the guards ordered Simon to help the Man bear the cross all the way to the end of their journey.
When they all had reached the hill, the guards prepared the cross. The dying Man, so deserving of a bit of compassion, pleaded for a small amount of water, but instead was given a vile drink of a bitter vinegar mixture. He would not drink.
It was now His time. The time that God, His Father in heaven, had promised Him would come. Though many may have been fearful and selfish having to do what this Man so willingly did, He knew that what He had to endure was to save millions of people from the depths of hell.
He was placed on the cross. The first nail pierced one hand and He let out a dreadful scream. The nails to follow also caused the Man to flinch and writhe with anguish unknown to many. And as that Man hung on the cross that was erected to be the death of Him, He prayed and thanked the Lord for using Him as a vessel to save a nation. And when the Man died, He was poked one last time in the side, and when the spear punctured His body, blood and water flowed from the wound like a glorious fountain…
Many would think that this is a heartbreaking story, but it is quite the contrary. This man, Jesus Christ, died for our sins and now sits at the right hand of God in heaven. The conclusion of His story was, and is, beyond a happy ending.
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I was waiting to hear of the victorious resurrection at the end, especially with Easter around the corner.
I enjoyed hearing the scripture through your eyes. Continue to glorify the Lord in your writing.
I'm glad we can look at the happy ending.