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Devotionals
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Cross Walk 2014
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More Reflections
Cross Walk, Good Friday 2014
The phone rang 8:45 a.m. It’s time to get up for the cross walk are you still in bed? Oh soooo tired! Peering out the window…. Looks ugly, cold, wet, dismal…. Thinking to myself… To go or not to go, that is the question? I hate it when it’s so cold. I don’t really want to go out in this…Wait,… why am I trying to wuss out here because I don’t want to get cold? I can wear long johns and an extra sweater under my coat. I ask forgiveness Lord Jesus. My heart is colder than this weather! How could I not honor you this day and walk less than 30 minutes remembering the walk you walked to Golgotha hill.
Prepared we met dressed warmly with faithful followers. The warmth of the heated sanctuary felt so good when we entered. Reminded again, seeing the barren alter, the black draped cross…Silence returned and my body chilled thinking of Christ’s walk to the Skull’s hill.
Hill… a hill You climbed in a weakened state no less. How easy it is to gloss over the “story” even when it’s read by the best. Think... TV news event 911 of Christ’s time. More serious now? You bet! To be in that very place seeing firsthand view multiple stripe scores from a cat of nine tails brutal whip on Jesus back and sides. We live in too much comfort to even understand His strides.
Blow after blow, you bore in the city square. You then stumbled and trudged uphill with the weight of a wooden cross and the burden for the sinner’s soul on your shoulders. I try to relate when I have walked even a short ways when fevered with flu, and my muscles have been sore. Yet that doesn’t even bring justice to what you experienced. In addition emotionally, Your heart was breaking too. Love so unfathomable, expressing gratitude is not simply suffice. I give you my very soul, being and life. You are a dear friend who will never forsake a sinners despairing cry. Outstretched arms like the prodigal’s father you welcome home and say “For those tears I died.”
To be continued…
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Bonnie 04/19/2014 02:22 |
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