This woman who had raised Him and loved Him through it all needed to be looked after in a special way. It’s a special connection of heart that starts at the time of conception and never leaves her. It didn’t soothe the heartbreak at all! A mother’s love doesn’t work like that. But that didn’t make it any easier for her to comprehend. What did His mother have to endure? Any mother out there knows and can sympathize with the sheer agony of heartbreak that Mary must have been going through. Women in biblical times had no authority or protection if it were not for certain members of the family establishing care for them. “When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, ‘Woman, behold your son!’ Then He said to the disciple, ‘Behold your mother!’ And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home,” (John 19:26-27, NKJV). He immediately pleaded with the Father for their forgiveness. How awesome is that? Often, we hear these words during a Seven Last Words service on Good Friday, but can we even begin to imagine the strength and willpower it took for Jesus not to focus on Himself during that time? For Him to look beyond what He was currently going through to care for and about others? I don’t think we have a clue. Yet, He focused on the needs of others rather than Himself. He knew the pain would not cease until He did. Instead of ranting and raving, Jesus, in His agony and pain sought the betterment of the very ones who were killing Him. “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do,” (Luke 23:34, NKJV).įocus shift. How much He paid attention to the needs of others despite what He was going through. It dawned on me, in the midst of the worse thing He would ever have to endure, how much He had a focus shift. But, when we are in the midst of trials and travail, the negative and pessimistic seem to take up residence in our being, hindering us from bothering with anyone else other than ourselves and our own needs.Īs I was pondering this I thought about Jesus on the cross. When we feel positive and optimistic it is easy for us to shower others with attention and be pressed into service for their needs. How we feel matters, but then again, it doesn’t matter. And, somebody must have put a rock at the end of my tunnel blocking out all light because I just don’t see it. To imagine a silver lining when in all honesty all I see is dark clouds.
#JUDAH IWORD FULL#
It’s rather hard to see the glass as half full when you feel half empty. How do you view the position you are in now? Is everything going okay for you or are you finding yourself fighting through, just trying to make it to the other side of adversity? Perspective, if you will, changes one’s outlook on a lot of things in life. “It’s all in how you look at it.” At least, that’s what I hear some say.
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