SORROW’S PATH

A day of pain and suffering Lord, stretches out before You, and
Judas and the Roman Soldiers are now at Gethsemani’s gate.
The time of suffering as the apostles slept has weakened You, but
in resignation You stand and await the betrayer’s kiss like the gentle Lamb
that You are, knowing that it has to be, if God’s children are going to
gain heaven. Under the great weight of what was to come Lord, how did
You keep to the Will of Your Father? As ordinary humans, the chances of
any of us fulfilling a similar mission would be nil. It is all so horrific that
our feeble minds can’t even come close to understanding or imagining
to what length You suffered for us. You took upon Your Sacred body, the
stench and putridness of our sins from the beginning to the end of all
existence.
Possessed now by Satan, Judas does his evil deed, and upon seeing the treatment
that the soldiers were raining down upon Jesus, he ran off for he knew he had
delivered Jesus up to death and not the mission he personally had
fabricated in his mind, of an earthly rule for Jesus. He had misinterpreted
Jesus’ teachings of His Kingdom. In despair he hangs himself erasing any
chance of forgiveness. Lord in these years that have gone by since that fateful
day, we watch through modern day technology, films that depict the story of
Your great Sacrifice, and books that word the event so well that we cringe and
cry out at the despicable way You were treated for us. We who believe cannot
understand why so many don’t believe or don’t care. What will it take to make
them see and hear Your Truths. Help us Lord, show us the way to be healers of
eyes and ears so we can, also by our example, show these wayward souls that the
path of suffering leads to the Kingdom of God, where we will know Resurrection’s
Glory from everlasting to everlasting. Lord Jesus, come and reign in our hearts.
Amen.

Margaret Rose Larrivee
Apr. 06, 2007