Then It Happened--Dark Days Of Crossing Over

Ssshh! Keep you voice down or they'll hear us. It's true. It's horribly true. What can a person do? Literally the crowd was chanting for it. I was stuck until I could slither out from between the bodies pressed in on me.(Mark 15:11-14)

Before all this happened, we had followed Him. Just the other night we sat outside the disciples' house and heard them having dinner. They even sang a song with Him (Mark 14:26, Mathew 26:30). It was so sweet. Then they went to a garden and that's when I went home. (Mark 14:17-26)

I heard it happened there, at the garden. (Mark 14:43-46) Everyone ran away. They all left and are hiding. Whatever you say, don't say His name. We don't want to draw that kind of attention. And for goodness sake, keep your eyes down! The scribes might recognize us as ones who followed Him around. (John 18:15-17 & John 18:25-27)

How did I miss God on this? At first it seemed He was the One, but then the scribes asked all those questions... We just needed more time; but now this horrible thing! I don't understand. He did all those miracles but He's not able to save Himself. (Mathew 27:39-43). Even Pilate look worried about the whole thing (Mathew 27:19, John 19:8). But their chants were so loud "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!"(Mark 15:11-14). It made the hair on my neck stand up. Why this? Pilate was asking the same thing, "Why?". I kept looking at Pilate to do something, but he didn't.

These turn of events are just too powerful to stop. All we can do is lay low. My stomach is sick with disgust and worry. Guards are everywhere. Even my friends from 'church' were in the chanting crowds. I know because I too was there. How did it all happen so fast?

Yes, they took Him right by here with a cross. A cross! (John 19:17). I didn't even recognize Him. They'd beaten Him so bad and now He's heading up there. I couldn't watch the abuse. Were you able to? The tears are coming and I just know they're going to recognize me.

What will happen to us? I haven't seen anyone else we know. They're all scattered. We're utterly alone and we're next (Mathew 26:56). If only you'd heard the hatred in their voices; it was like they were tearing my own flesh with it. The world has fallen apart and is completely under siege.

I can't watch but I'm too afraid to leave this spot. Paralyzed right here, I'm petrified to move a muscle. I can't hold it together. He's all I'd hoped for. We were so close to the Kingdom. Now it's all over. (Mark 15:22-24). Nothing makes sense. Look! They're raising Him up....

Let's pretend we don't know the end from the beginning. We are just walking there in the now, in the today, and following Him the week of the cross. Because isn't that how we live life? Even though we now have the New Testament & a comforting Holy Spirit, we sometimes still walk in what we know right now. This series is a desire to walk this week of the cross, like I only I have that day, not fully knowing the end. Because even today, my mind truly cannot grasp the fullness of the end, I can only imagine it. For the first part in this series, just click here, "Enter The City", the second part here at "The Great Debates.." .

Excerpts taken from: John 18:15-17 & John 18:25-27; Mark 14:17-26 & Mark 14:43-50; John 19:5-8; Mark 15:11-14; Mark 15:16-20; Mathew 27:39-43

"...And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
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.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth....For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors." (Isaiah 53:2-9 & 12)


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