At the time of the assassination of Mahatma Ghandi, the playwright, George Bernard Shaw said, “This shows how dangerous it is to be too good.” The cruel death of Jesus on the Cross is the supreme example of that.
As far as mortals were involved, Jesus was killed because he was perfect. This imperfect world could not deal with his perfection, so it got rid of him.
A woman bought a beautiful and relatively expensive fourteen-karat gold cross with the express intention of giving it away to the first person who admired it. Two days later in a bookstore a gentleman admired the cross. She took it from her neck and offered it to him.
“Oh, I couldn’t take it. Why, it’s very expensive,” he said.
“I insist. Anyway, you won’t have it long. There’s a catch to my gift,” she responded.
“What’s that?” he asked.
“You must give it to the first person who admires it.”
Under that condition, the man took the cross. The woman later said she had no idea where the cross was but that she knew it had blessed many people and that it continues to bless her every day.
The shape of true love isn’t a diamond. It’s a CROSS.
Give a cross to someone who makes a comment about it…..and ask them to pass it on. It does not have to be an expensive one.
JESUS DIDN’T DIE AS A FAILED REVOLUTIONARY. JESUS’ DEATH WAS THE REVOLUTION!
My Commentary:
The Shape of True Love brings us face to face with the paradox of the cross: an instrument of suffering that became the world’s greatest symbol of love. George Bernard Shaw’s observation—”how dangerous it is to be too good”—strikes at the core of Christ’s crucifixion. Jesus wasn’t killed because He was weak or failed. He was killed because He was pure goodness in a world that couldn’t handle it.
Perfection threatened imperfection. Love exposed hatred. Truth disrupted lies. And so the world tried to silence Him. But the revolution had already begun—not one of swords and violence, but one of surrender, sacrifice, and redemption.
The woman’s gesture with the gold cross captures something beautiful: love is not something to hoard but something to pass on. And the shape of true love isn’t a flawless diamond—it’s a rugged cross. Not a symbol of wealth, but of costly, selfless love. Her simple act of giving the cross to anyone who admired it is a quiet evangelism, a way of saying: “If this cross touches you, let it touch someone else through you.”
The cross isn’t just jewelry. It’s a mission. It’s a reminder. And when we wear it, we don’t just wear gold—we carry the memory of a Savior who chose suffering so we could know love.
My Prayer Reflection:
Lord Jesus,
You did not come to impress the world with diamonds,
But to save it with the wood of the cross.
Your perfection was too much for a broken world—so they tried to destroy You.
But in Your death, You started a revolution of grace.
Remind us, Lord, that true love is not found in comfort but in sacrifice.
Teach us not to hold onto blessings, but to pass them on.
Let the cross we wear not just rest on our chest, but burn in our hearts.
Give us the courage to live with generosity,
To let go of what we think is “too expensive” or “too much,”
And to give love freely, even when it costs us.
May the shape of our lives be the shape of the cross—
Stretching out in self-giving love,
Rooted deep in Your mercy,
Rising always toward Your kingdom.
Jesus, Your death was not a defeat—it was the victory of love.
Let us live like revolutionaries of grace, one cross at a time. Amen.
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