The $165 million bonuses at AIG sure have everybody fuming, don’t they!
Equally disgusting as this whole debacle, though, is all the finger-pointing going on in Washington! Talk about desperate politicians passing the hot potato! Nobody wants this one! Everybody’s accusing somebody else.
The blame game. It’s been going on since the beginning. Adam passed the buck: “The woman whom You gave me… she gave it to me and I ate.” Eve didn’t want it: “The serpent deceived me… and I ate.” And every one of us has picked up right where they left off. We started just as soon as we could talk.
The irony of Easter, then, is that the Blameless One took the blame. He took the blame that wasn’t His. Knowingly. Purposefully. Willingly.
It doesn’t compute, does it? It’s completely foreign to our nature. We’ll do just about anything before we own up to our own messes, let alone take the blame and consequence for someone else’s blunder.
So as you watch the song and dance about bonuses on Capitol Hill, consider the stark contrast on another hill—Calvary. Our Savior came not to shift the blame with caustic rhetoric, not to place the blame with the bony finger of accusation, but to save the world by accepting our blame and punishment. If that isn’t love!
Invite someone to hear that story with you this Easter, April 12th!