alone

Jesus was so alone when He went through the torture and cruelty of that last day of His life.  After ministering God's love, healing and instruction for three years to thousands of people...after daily instructing and mentoring twelve disciples...after faithfully keeping the Law and honoring His Father....He faced the final and most important challenge of His earthly mission alone.  He was betrayed by one of the twelve, abandoned by the remaining eleven, rejected by the people He came to save and unjustly condemned by the leaders of His religion and of His government.  He was stripped of every particle of clothing and cruelly beaten and there was no one to stand for Him or with Him.  He went to the Cross and He was even cut off from His heavenly Father.  There was no one to intercede, no one to share the burden, no one to correct this injustice.  Still today millions ignore Him, reject Him, and judge Him cruelly.  Just like those who put Jesus through that horrific time twenty centuries ago they don't fully realize who He is.  The world would just like Jesus to go away because He reminds us that we are deeply flawed and essentially corrupt.  We'd rather go on our way and do whatever we want in complete denial of the possibility of judgment.  But Jesus wouldn't let us face that judgment alone.  He knew that a time was coming when we would be fairly judged for the content of our earthly days and that we had no hope, alone.  He was willing to endure every injustice by Himself that we might have one to stand with us who would always stand for us.   He was willing to be alone for us that we might be in His company forever.

 

Isaiah 53: ³ He is despised and rejected by men,
      A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
      And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
      He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
       ⁴ Surely He has borne our griefs
      And carried our sorrows;
      Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
      Smitten by God, and afflicted.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith