Sit and Watch

Have you ever been an “ambulance chaser”?  Do accidents and fires draw your attention?  If they do, you are normal, because something in the human psyche draws us to tragedies.  Traffic on Three Notch Road Saturday was sluggish approaching Battlefield Parkway, and I soon found out why: there had been an accident at the intersection.  Police cars were parked on the side of the intersection with blue lights flashing, a tow truck driver was sweeping up shattered plastic car pieces, and a lady was crying sitting on a guardrail beside the road.  A white SUV was smashed in the front with airbags deployed, and a black sedan was across the road with similar damage.  But in an instant, I saw an officer motioning me through the intersection.  I was moving too slow.  I was guilty of “rubbernecking”: twisting my head around to see the carnage.  This morning in church, our pastor read a passage from the Lord’s crucifixion.  After the Jewish leaders had wrongfully judged Jesus, after the Roman soldiers had nailed Jesus to the cross, and after all of the excitement of the crucifixion had subsided, everyone present just sat down and watched.  Matthew 27:36, “And sitting down they watched him there.”  Without knowing it, they were watching the greatest tragedy of humankind unfolding right before their eyes.  The Creator of the universe was giving His life for the sins of the whole world, but no one realized it!  They just sat there taking it all in, just like me driving by the accident.  Hey, as Easter approaches this year, meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  Don’t just sit and watch, sit and watch and think.  Think about what the Savior did for you.