Who Drove Those Nails?
Theme of the Week: Repeat Repenter
Sunday, February 5, 2006
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Who Said It…Glenn Stanton
Glenn Stanton is a director and senior research analyst at the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family. He serves as a media spokesperson for this organization. A husband and father of five, Glenn says that he and his wife, Jacqueline, have little sleep but much joy!
Glenn has written The Little Big Book for Dads and The Fatherhood Movement: A Call to Action. He won the Amy Foundation writing award in 2001 and was featured in the PBS documentary Affluenza.
What He Said…Who Drove Those Nails?
The Dutch painter Rembrandt painted a curious painting in 1633 titled Raising the Cross. As in many of his paintings, the central subject is bathed in light against a background of darkness. The subject in this painting is Christ being raised on the cross, yet something about the painting strikes the viewer as odd.
Those participating in executing Christ are dressed in the garb of the day and society Rembrandt lived in. The painter portrays himself in the painting participating in raising the cross. You might ask, "Hey, what are those 17th-century Dutch guys with funky hats doing crucifying Christ?"
But that's exactly the point. Rembrandt was communicating that he nailed Christ to the cross, that it was his sin that drove Christ there. It could easily be me in the painting and it could easily be you because our sin drove Christ to the cross as well.
Adapted from My Crazy Imperfect Christian Family (NavPress, 2004) by permission.
Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine. Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
Forgive me, Lord, for presuming to receive deliverance from the penalty of sin without an all-out effort to cooperate with You in escaping its power.
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