Treasure Hunter
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On this Easter Sunday, if I propose that Jesus’ willingness to accept his suffering on the cross was an act of love, I would get unanimous agreement among Christians. Except I find that the vast majority of those who speak of love assume the feminine version of love. In fact, it appears that most don’t even have a masculine conceptualization of love.
The feminine love would protect Jesus from pain in the short term, but at the same time, it would deny Jesus the justice, life, and glory that he is entitled to. I offer this for your consideration.
Peter is attempting to give Jesus feminine love by protecting him from the will of the Father but is firmly rejected by Jesus. The feminine love that Peter is offering is oppositional to the masculine love that Jesus is imposing in himself.From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,and that he must be killed and on the third daybe raised to life.
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
The feminine love would protect Jesus from pain in the short term, but at the same time, it would deny Jesus the justice, life, and glory that he is entitled to. I offer this for your consideration.