What I Heard Wasn't What I Heard, So The Consequences are Consequential!
Posted: Friday, February 03, 2012
by elle kynzer
Fictional Eavesdropping Assignment by Wryte Stuff:
As I hid behind the tree, the Roman Soldiers were coming and I wanted to get information about the man they had arrested. Ephas was speaking and Rauel was listening "The man said 'destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up' and I heard that myself. Rauel moaned and repeated the phrase. "Who does he think he is that he could raise up a Temple that took years and many people to build?" Ephas spoke. "The man is an insane fool, and I know Pilate won't give him any mercy for being blasphemous." Ephas smiled and began talking in whispers to Rauel.
The men laughed as Pilate was calming down the crowd. Pilate loudly told the Pharisees and Sadducees that he found no fault in the man named Jesus. The crowd loudly cried 'Crucify him, Crucify him'. I joined in with the others "He's insane and not the son of God". Pilate tried to offer Barrabas as the prisoner to be released. All in the crowd agreed to Jesus being 'crucified' as we cried unanimously! I thought the soldiers had condemned the man.
Soon the soldiers dragged Jesus away to be crucified, as I spied Ephas and Rauel out of the corner of my eye, and both were crying. I approached them and heard Rauel comforting Ephas that they would both be in heaven with Jesus one day. I stopped and told the soldier Ephas I had heard him say Jesus was insane, and Rauel stopped me, "Rauel was telling me what the soldiers in the prison were saying about Jesus, and not what he thought." We were planning to help him before the crowd refused Barabbas, and cried out for his death.
When I left the men I knew I had condemned an innocent man based on what I thought I had heard, and it was only a believer conveying what he had heard in the place where Jesus was being held. Now I knew I was condemned because I had chosen to believe a lie. I stood at the rear of the people while Jesus was dying and my heart was broken, and Jesus looked at me as I surrendered all that I had been to his pleading eyes, in repentance. I would have to live with the knowledge that I had helped crucify an innocent man through my own sin.
We crucify Jesus every time we deny him, and refuse the gift of life. We hear lies about him everyday, and repeat those lies without proof or knowledge. We eavesdrop on the naysayers and end up believing what they say. The mockers say 'He isn't coming back, and the Bible isn't true". We choose to believe the word of God, or those going to hell as a consequence of their unbelief. Will we line up with the regretters of eavesdropping, or will we hear 'Well done thy good and faithful servant?'
Note:
I think this topic had a moral for us to ponder. This was a hard fiction topic, but this story came to me as I pondered what to write. We all hear gossip and most is either not true, repeated stories, or exaggerated nonsense to harm someone.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)The sign of the "Prophet Jonah". People don't think about that. Great writing. Excellent job.Please log in to respond to this comment.Thanks Chris.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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