Choices.

In any given scenario, the space between response and reaction can be telling. The question of whether to go the distance, close the distance, keep one's distance, or dramatically distance oneself is descriptive and predictive.

And when all the crowds who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they returned home, beating their breasts. But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things. - Luke 23:48-49 

Pilate, the crowds, the loyal women, and Joseph of Arimathea all chose in the moment of crisis.

It was not their final choice, but it was pivotal in the moment.

There will be moments of decision today.

What is your predisposition as pertains to your distance from Jesus in His utmost humiliation and identification with broken humanity?

It is likely to drive your proximate choices and will drive you one step further toward your ultimate choices.

In some ways, every choice is ultimate.