HIS+ Troubled Soul ~ John 12:27 ~ LENTEN Meditation for the Preparation of the LAST PASSOVER ~ 2024

 

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.

AT the FOOT of The Cross ~ John 12:26 ~ LENTEN Meditation for the Preparation of the LAST PASSOVER ~ 2024

 

 If any man serve ME+,

let him follow ME+;

and where I+ , I+ am,

there shall also My+  servant be:

if any man serve ME+,

him will My+  FATHER honor.

^{John 12:26}

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Is it hard to discover “where” The LORD JESUS actually is, in your life ?

HE+ is indeed there, waiting for you at the foot of His+ Cross.

Why does HE+ wait for you there ,

at that most uncomfortable place ?

HE+ waits for you to meet HIM+ there . . . so that HE+ help you join HIM+ on the Cross.

Yes, HE+ is our Resurrected SAVIOR+. Yes, HE+ brings us through to Victory over enemies within and without.

His+ Victory came only via the Cross where HE+ crucified His+ LIFE for our sake.

LIKEWISE,

our Victory comes

ONLY through the Cross,

where we die to our Self

for His+ Sake.

 Remember: HE+ does NOT place us onto that Cross.

NO. It is what we freely choose ourselves. We freely choose to pick up our cross and die daily to ourselves . . .

BECAUSE

that is the ONLY WAY

to have Victory in JESUS.

HE+ stands waiting at the foot of the cross for each one of us to ENABLE us by His+ enabling  Grace to join HIM+ on the Cross. 

The LORD JESUS is ready and willing to help us put to death our Self-nature and all that we hold dear as our “identity”.  

HE+ AWAITS OUR PERMISSION TO DO SO.

       THAT is where you will find HIM+ when you are “dry”,     “dull of spirit”, and floundering. When your life has lost    its zest , lost its color, and lost its liveliness, then you      have moved away from the Foot of the Cross.

       HE+ hasn’t moved; you have.

At the Foot of the Cross HE+ is standing,

waiting for you

to be willing to embrace

death to the Self.

That is when you will discover the RESURRECTION POWER of CHRIST JESUS . . . for Resurrection comes only after death.

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Let Us Pray:

LORD JESUS, I have avoided coming to meet you at that cross . I have not wanted to die to WHAT I WANT. I wanted to live my life my way.  

O LORD JESUS, I see I was wrong. Help me to embrace that cross and not be afraid that it will “kill me”. 

I know that it will ONLY KILL my natural-man which blocks Your+ LIFE from flowing through me.

              Today, O LORD JESUS, I bend the knee of my heart          at the Foot of the Cross and yield my Self over to                 YOU+.

              Fill me now with Your+ Life anew and keep me         tethered to Your+ Cross, O LORD. 

This I pray in Thy+ Holy Name, O CHRIST. Amen

Worthy is The LAMB+ that was slain !

 

HE+ DID IT FIRST: Losing Our Life . . . John 12:25. . . LENTEN MEDITATION for the Preparation of The PASSOVER ~ 2024 ~ Week 4

 

He that loveth his life shall lose it;

and he that hateth his life in this world

shall keep it unto Life Eternal. 

^{John 12:25}

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:

and whosoever will lose his life

for MY+ Sake shall find it. 

^{Matthew 16:24}

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it;

but whosoever shall lose his life

for MY+ Sake and the Gospel's,

the same shall save it. 

^{Mark 8:35}

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:

but whosoever will lose his life for MY+ Sake,

the same shall save it.

^{Luke 9:24}

 That is  what HE+ said.  Four times HE+ said it.