But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
One So Close by Cathy Vinson |
The Near, but not near enough.
Influential, but not influential enough. Such was the demise of Pilate's wife. She saw with crystal clarity that something unspeakable and unbearable was poised to happen. The crossroads of history were descending upon her husband's jurisdiction and upon him. Would he be a pawn to it? Could she disway the enveloping pull of this dark hour of history drawing her husband...and herself? "that righteous man." Oh, those clarities that flogged her sensibilities those hours: visions of righteousness and innocent blood! Beholding and more beholding. "Could one so close to me damage, destroy such righteousness? May it never be!! Why must this be so clear to me if I cannot change it? Will such unlivable awareness have to be lived out by me, knowing this destruction is at the hands of one so close to me?!" "Have nothing to do with that righteous man," literally "nothing to you and that just man." Husband, nothing, no connection! Don't do it! Get it off you! You don't want it. Make no connection between you and him. Don't let history year after year continually drip this mark upon the day of your charge. Nothing, absolutely nothing, between you and he!" "Will you listen to the cunning crowd's threat, or will you listen to me, your wife...!" Oh, the agonizing tension in the soul of this wife. Near to authority, but not near enough. Influential, but not influential enough---------. |
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