God’s sex tape

I can’t remember the day but I still remember my reaction to the news that broke: Pamela Anderson’s honeymoon sex tape had been stolen from her home and was threatening to hit the public eye. Sex tape? Huh? A real person recording themselves having sex?? What for?? Its funny how, some years later, everyone in Hollywood seems to be making their private sex tapes. Twenty years ago it was considered taboo, but now it’s accepted. It’s amazing how society changes. It’s amazing how much we choose to accept.

God didn’t release a sex tape; but he did do something as raw, as naked and as shocking as any sex tapes released onto the internet. Around 1978 years ago the only God-man to ever walk this planet hung, suspended on two pieces of wood, for all the world to see. It was recorded and documented in detail. Since then the event has been shot in film, painted on canvasses and sung about in songs. The God-man hung naked, raw, bleeding….dying. No help, no assistance…purposed to die and to die painfully.

Sex, for it’s intended purpose, was the ultimate expression of love between a man and a woman in marriage. It was to be kept private and secret; only for them.

Jesus hanging on the cross….dying, was God’s ultimate expression of love between Him and us. He chose to make it as public as possible. He chose to make it as raw, as naked and as gross as possible. This love, this passion that he has for us, was never meant to be private or to be kept as a secret.

People can make endless sex tapes, a captured performance of empty passion for the camera, whereas we will always behold God’s love event full of passion and dripping with love: Jesus on the cross.