Wearing Wigs

I really can’t say I like wearing wigs like that. In fact, I don’t think I can wear a wig for 5 hours. There’s always just this unexplainable pain I feel with wearing a wig for that long. I do not think it’s only a wig; wearing a headband for a few hours, or a gele for a few hours, just feels like torture, and I know some girlies like me would understand this.

This past week, I thought about this a lot. I kept thinking that if I feel pain from wearing a wig, headband, or a gele for a few hours, how much pain must Jesus have felt for wearing the crown of thorns for approximately 6 to 9 hours. The Bible tells us that “they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head” (Matthew 27:29). This crown had extremely sharp, paired thorns, with one straight and the other curved, and the thorns were about 2 inches long. If the prick of a small rose thorn can make you flinch, imagine thorns that were long, piercing, and unforgiving pressed deeply into His scalp (See Tiny).

I can’t wear a wig for five hours, but imagine Jesus wearing the crown of thorns, with the thorns piercing into His scalp, sending waves of pain across His head. With the skin on the skull being so thin, every puncture must have been agonizing. Blood would have flowed from His forehead into His eyes, causing stinging, irritation, and blurred vision, even as He made His way to Calvary. With all of that and more going on, the soldiers still struck Jesus on the head (Matthew 27:30). I’m sure the blows drove the long thorns deeper and would have caused swelling and even more pain. Every time he moved, spoke, or stumbled, the crown would have shifted, reopening His wounds again and again, and causing more pain in the skull. The weight of the cross alone would have pressed the thorns even deeper into His flesh.

I have been thinking about the crown alone, but what about the whipping out of stripes of flesh, the dehydration, the piercing on His side, and pushing up with His nailed feet to relieve pressure on the chest, among other things? All of these must have flooded His brain with different pain signals, extreme exhaustion, and mental distress. This was not ordinary suffering; this was sacrifice.

All I am saying today is that Jesus went through a lot for you and me, so do not let that be in vain. All I have been thinking about is that if wearing a wig causes me to have a headache, imagine wearing the crown of thorns. All I have been ruminating on is that Jesus did not go through all of that and more for you and me to live our lives anyhow we wanted. The truth is, “He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him” (2 Corinthians 5:15). He did that so we could have life, a real, intentional life that is redeemed, surrendered, purposeful, and anchored in Him.

He endured all of that pain, not out of obligation, but out of love. As the Bible reminds us, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13). This was love in its deepest, most sacrificial form, a love that chose suffering so we could be free. A love that stayed when it could have walked away. A love that looked beyond the moment of agony and saw you and me. And when I think about it like that, it shifts something in me. It makes me pause. It makes me reflect on how casually I sometimes take the life I’ve been given. Because this wasn’t cheap. This wasn’t small. This wasn’t easy.

So no, I can’t wear a wig for five hours without discomfort, but He wore a crown of thorns for hours, carrying the weight of the world, enduring pain beyond comprehension. And He did it willingly.

That alone calls us higher. Higher in how we live. Higher in how we love. Higher in how we respond to Him. Because if He gave that much for us, the least we can do is not live as if it meant nothing. As Scripture urges us, “offer your bodies as a living sacrifice… this is your true worship” (Romans 12:1). And I pray that all that He endured will not be in vain in our lives.

Thank you for reading through, and may God continually bless you!
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