John
12:27 ~ 2024 Lenten Meditation
Now is My+ Soul troubled;
and what shall I+ say?
FATHER, save ME+ from this hour:
but for this cause came I+ unto this hour.
John
12:27
HE+ did not refuse the Cup presented to HIM+.
HE+ faced His+ FATHER’S WILL , the Divine
Will which included His+ Crucifixion.
The LORD JESUS knew there would be no Resurrection without His+
death. . . even His+ death upon the cruel,
horrible, agonizing CROSS.
It was not “just” a death. It did not come swiftly, like a
guillotine-death. It was a long, slow,
excruciating death, filled with TOTAL PAIN every second of every minute of
every hour that it lasted.
Wherefore HE+ was given a NAME above
every other name, that at the Name of JESUS every knee should bow and every
tongue PROCLAIM that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. . . to the Glory of
GOD The FATHER !
No
wonder His+ Soul was troubled. Yet, troubled with anguish of His+
human soul, HE+ embraced His+ FATHER’S WILL.
So that we could live.
So that we could live in Victory
over our problems here on earth.
So that we could live Eternally with
HIM+.
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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory;
2
Corinthians 4:17
Let us Pray:
Dear LORD JESUS,
Help me to keep in view the cost of my Redemption. Help
me to be aware that my
victory was given
to me by YOU+, at the Cross.
I repent of my grumbling, fussing, and complaining
spirit.
I have nothing to do but be THANKFUL that YOU+ have made
a Way for me to have Your+ Victory daily in every circumstance I face. Help me to become STILL enough to see that
Victory.
And have that sweet anticipation of Eternity with YOU+,
Face to Face !
Worthy art THOU+ , O LORD CHRIST, WORTHY ART THOU !,
Amen, and thankfully so.