I have woken up with a feeling of heaviness and responsibility. Jesus has been arrested and taken away. Peter has said his words of denial - it is now past dawn - and I have said mine too.
Sin lies heavy today - or so it seems -but regular life goes on too. It is always an odd mish-mash of things on this day. I remember as a child walking home from the 11am Good Friday Service by myself and looking at the people driving their cars and walking their dogs - Good Friday is a public holiday in the UK - and thinking to myself - don't you know that Jesus is dead?
Then I would get home and the concern would be lunch and cheese and worries about Hot Cross Buns. My parents never went to Good Friday services - I added more as I got older.
Don't you know that Jesus is dying? Hard words - I haven't done anything worse that I ever do - but I feel responsible and deeply sorrowful.
Lord Jesus
thank-you for today
thank-you for going through these terrible things
I cannot imagine how bad all of this was
Help me to begin to understand why that is for me
And to live as a person who you died for.
Amen.
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