OPINION: One Solitary Life

Many of Jesus’ parables revolve around the common things He observed. It’s easy to imagine that those well-known stories may have come from the things he saw as a child.

Perhaps it is by design that we know so little about His childhood. But what we know of His later life was destined to change the world.

One unknown writer said it best: He was born in an obscure village.

He worked in a carpenter shop until he was 30.

He then became an itinerant preacher.

He never held an office.

He never had a family or owned a house.

He didn’t go to college.

He had no credentials but himself.

He was only 33 when the public turned against him.

His friends ran away.

He was turned over to enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.

He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.

While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth.

He was laid in a borrowed grave.

Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race.

All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that One Solitary Life.