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Seven Final Sayings of Jesus: #3 'Love'
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04/12/2010
By Admin, Admin
Jesus said to his mother, “This man is now your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “She is now your mother.” John 19:26-27
What was his mother thinking? Watching her son dying, slowly, by degrees.” “How did it ever come to this”? “I wish I could wake up from this nightmare”? “I wish I’d never had him?”
And what about the favorite follower? What’s the point of being a disciple when there’s no master? So much for being in the inner circle, when the circle is being torn apart before you. So much for being special when all your hopes and dreams are being drained of life in front of your very eyes.
And what were the onlookers thinking? The ones whose curiosity had slowed them to a halt, to check out this first century car-crash? Thrill seekers, attracted by what the small crowd were looking at over there on Skull Hill, what was going through their minds? “Interesting action by the looks of it, always good to get the news firsthand.” Nothing like the excitement of fresh gossip!
Which of us knows what any of the rest of us is really thinking? We can barely read our own minds, let alone those of others. None of us can predict the significance of any of our moments. Take the soldiers, throwing the dice for a dying man’s clothes, salivating at the market resale value. They had ringside seats for the cosmic drama… but they were too busy living to notice.
We only know for sure what Jesus was thinking of. --He was thinking of others. Whatever Mary was thinking, she stands silent before the cross realizing that even in death Christ was more concerned with what he could give to her than what she could bring to him. The One who couldn’t forget his mother even while on the cross will never forget us, his brothers and sisters.
Pastor Jeannette Conver
What was his mother thinking? Watching her son dying, slowly, by degrees.” “How did it ever come to this”? “I wish I could wake up from this nightmare”? “I wish I’d never had him?”
And what about the favorite follower? What’s the point of being a disciple when there’s no master? So much for being in the inner circle, when the circle is being torn apart before you. So much for being special when all your hopes and dreams are being drained of life in front of your very eyes.
And what were the onlookers thinking? The ones whose curiosity had slowed them to a halt, to check out this first century car-crash? Thrill seekers, attracted by what the small crowd were looking at over there on Skull Hill, what was going through their minds? “Interesting action by the looks of it, always good to get the news firsthand.” Nothing like the excitement of fresh gossip!
Which of us knows what any of the rest of us is really thinking? We can barely read our own minds, let alone those of others. None of us can predict the significance of any of our moments. Take the soldiers, throwing the dice for a dying man’s clothes, salivating at the market resale value. They had ringside seats for the cosmic drama… but they were too busy living to notice.
We only know for sure what Jesus was thinking of. --He was thinking of others. Whatever Mary was thinking, she stands silent before the cross realizing that even in death Christ was more concerned with what he could give to her than what she could bring to him. The One who couldn’t forget his mother even while on the cross will never forget us, his brothers and sisters.
Pastor Jeannette Conver
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