Easter 2009.
This is a "dear diary" entry purely for me to recall at some later date.
Todays Bible Study reading was St. John 19, vs 16-27.
The introductory notes were as follows; Ask God to help you read today's passage as if for the first time ever.
Now, this piece is about the Crucifixion. To try and pretend I've not read/heard about it before was going to be a little difficult, to say the least but I did as I was bid.
I felt all the sadness, horror and anger that you would expect if you read a similar story in the paper today. It was when I reached the last few verses that I truly had
forgotten that, in all the mayhem, Christ showed compassion. His Mother, some other women and John, the disciple He loved were looking on in desperation. Christ
looked at his Mother and said "Dear woman; here is your son" He then said to John "Here is your Mother". As He dies he gives them each other for comfort and
support!
Powerful, powerful stuff.
Todays Bible Study reading was St. John 19, vs 16-27.
The introductory notes were as follows; Ask God to help you read today's passage as if for the first time ever.
Now, this piece is about the Crucifixion. To try and pretend I've not read/heard about it before was going to be a little difficult, to say the least but I did as I was bid.
I felt all the sadness, horror and anger that you would expect if you read a similar story in the paper today. It was when I reached the last few verses that I truly had
forgotten that, in all the mayhem, Christ showed compassion. His Mother, some other women and John, the disciple He loved were looking on in desperation. Christ
looked at his Mother and said "Dear woman; here is your son" He then said to John "Here is your Mother". As He dies he gives them each other for comfort and
support!
Powerful, powerful stuff.