+ The time for the dissolution of the Lord’s physical life on this
earth is coming to its final “hour” and all seems to be
configured for the final scenes. Soon both the Romans and Jesus own people –
the family of God – the nation formed by God to be the locus of the Messiah’s
entry into the world – will conspire heavily against him and by the end of this
week he will be dead, murdered in fact, but then raised from the dead by the
working of the Holy Spirit. The Romans and the people of Israel really don’t
know who it is they are dealing with, at this time! “Or they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory!”
Caiphas the high priest
thickens the plot by telling his comrades that it would be better and easier
for one man to die than for the nation, than to have their nation dissembled by
the Romans. And so soon, false charges will be brought against Jesus – and the rest
his history – salvation history!
May we on this last day of
Lent 2018 bring ourselves now into the silence, the darkness and the entirely
intense witnessing of the events of our salvation: yours and mine, and all who
have ever lived or will live: Jesus did this for us: certainly not for himself –
but from love of us – and he would have gone through the whole thing if there
were in fact only one of us! So great is his love and that of his Father!
Let us purify ourselves
mentally, spiritually and physically for the events: let us cast away from us all the crimes we have committed, and make for
ourselves a new heart and a new spirit.
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