Lately My Thoughts Have Been On...

One Man.
No, this isn't about some guy that I'm head over heels for.
This is about more than "some guy."
One Man. Could one man come and save all of humanity? Could one man die a death painful and excrutiating enough that it would cover every wrong that mankind has done?
Think about it. Not only every wrong that I have done (and there are a LOT), inlcuding every terrible thing, every lie, every hateful thought or word that has come out of my mouth, but every wrong of humanity.
The Rawandan Genocide.
Dhofar/Sudan.
9/11.
Sex slaves.
Broken marraiges.
Abusive relationships.
VA Tech Shootings.
Desert Storm.
Every lie.
Every curse.
Every bad decision.
Of every human that ever lived/ever will live on this planet.
Would one man be willing to suffer all of that for humanity? For me? To be rejected by most, ridiculed by many, of simply thought of as a "good man?" Could one man?
I think of myself and how selfish and self-seeking I am. I would never be willing to go through that kind of death for other people, especially if I wasn't going to get some sort of amazing recognition beyond all belief.
Especially if I was merely going to be ridiculed by most.
And it's not like this death is anything you've ever imagined ( www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion#Details I encourage you to look it up). It wasn't a quick and easy death. It was a slow, painful death. Imagine: Having a whip with broken pieces of glass being slashed into your back, over and over again. A crown of thorns pushed down into your head. Being spit on, laughed at probably kicked around, and publicly ridiculed. Having to carry a huge, wooden cross on your back for over a mile. Having nails driven into your hands and feet and being hung in a manner that eventually, after hours of torture, your lungs just exploded. I'm sure the splinters on the whole back side of your body would go completely unnoticed.
Would you do that for someone who would mess up time and time again? Someone who would scorn you, question you, and show utter ungratefullness to you? Well He did it for me. And I've done every one of those things to Him.
Talk about guilt. I can't even get my life together half of the time, when someone died a miserable, painful life just so I, little old I, didn't have to.
Talk about priority issues.
Okay, I'm done rambling. I've just had this on my mind lately and I'm going to leave you with one last thought.
If you could die in the place of someone who totally and completely deserved their death (think Hitler; Sadam Hussein) to give them a chance to get it right when chances are, they'd mess up more often than not, would you?
Could you?