Just heard the Passion of the Lord this Sunday ... a powerful story like no other. Jesus is surrounded by people who seem to "know" who Jesus really is even before His death. They are us, all of us who are true believers ... in that way, I hear the words and put myself in those places. I am at the Last Supper, at the garden in Gethsemane, in the crowd watching the debate in Pilate's mind ... when the people said "His blood be upon us and upon our children", I really felt the terror of what that meant, maybe because of my study of the Book of Revelation. Here were people doing the opposite of repenting ... they were willingly causing their own destruction.
Even today people choose that path but if they listened to this story with open hearts, what a difference they would feel. There is nothing like the Passion ... because as a revolutionary once said, we can't be sure that we will live for something unless we are willing to die for it. And of that, Jesus is the only example that matters.
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