The Last Week...

This morning when I was doing something or other, the thought came to me, "I wonder what it must have been like for Jesus knowing it was His final week on Earth?" The thought really struck me as interesting. So today we will try and see what it must have felt like.

During that last week He tried telling His disciples what was going to happen, but during their final week with Him they were arguing about who was the greatest! That final week He had ridden on the donkey and had cried over Jerusalem, that last week He said that the temple was no longer His Father's dwelling place.

Yes this was a very interesting week indeed, but the week is not over. During that last week He also had Passover with His disciples in the Upper Room, and during His last night on this Earth, He washed His disciples feet.

Then slowly He and His disciple made it to the garden of Gethsemane, He asked them to pray for Him. Oh if only they had known that this would be His final night, then would they or might have prayed for Him! But, alas, they all fell asleep. But Jesus determined to stay strong and to die, so that I, yes even I, might be saved!

Then the soldiers came in those last few hours, and stripped and beat and spit upon Him. Mocking Him as if He were a common man. They pushed the crown of thorns deep into His head, but He opened not His mouth. Yes during those last few hours on Earth, He suffered for you and me. And then they hung Him on a crude cross and nailed His hands and feet.

He thinking that His Father had abandoned Him, He felt so sad and so alone! Yes, even during those last few moments, minutes and seconds. But He didn't give up or give in! And then He gave His last breathed His last.

Yes I wonder what it must have felt like to know that this will be your last, your last of everything you have ever known. Praise God though that, that story didn't just stop there. We know that He rose again and is now interceding for you and yes for me, even me!

We will not suffer that much agony, but we will go through difficult times, but we must not forget that even through the darkest trials God is right there by our side. God never left Jesus' side, in fact He came down and stood right by His Son's cross, with thousand upon thousand's of angels. When we think that God has left us to die on our own, He is simply carrying us through the most difficult storm!

I want to trust God no matter what, don't you?