You can dismiss Jesus. You can ignore him. You can try to say he didn’t say what he said. You can try to wave away this talk of resurrection as the fantasies of fools. But you will see him. You will see him whom you pierced. And it will cut you to the heart to know you got it wrong about Jesus. Of course, that truth does not allow believers to be smug. They too will look on him whom they pierced. Oh, yes, we love Jesus, and we will thrill to the sight of Christ Jesus in all his glory when he returns. But the more we gaze at the wounds, the more we will see how deep they are. How painful they were. How horrifying was the price he paid for us. He is the reality we must confront. For he will confront us, each of us, with his reality.