Captured by Death
It's easy to mistake Jesus for a victim of circumstance – to see him as an unfortunate man carried along to an unfortunate death. But can the Son of God lose control? No, his arrest and execution point to a much deeper reality: his will to surrender and sacrifice himself; his choice to be captured and killed so that we could be set free. If we look at Jesus only as a victim, we might be tempted to see ourselves the same way – as victims to circumstances and to behavioural patterns. But Jesus went to the cross paradoxically, both forfeiting his power and displaying it most completely, all so that we could be released from the prison of sin and set free to live for him.
