When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
they took his clothes and divided them into four shares…

After this, aware that everything was now finished,
in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
Jesus said, “I thirst.”
There was a vessel filled with common wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop
and put it up to his mouth.
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,
“It is finished.”
And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. – John 19: 23 – 30

Reflection

Today is Good Friday.

What more can be said, than to silently reflect on the mystery of our Lord’s Passion and Crucifixion.

Who would believe what we have heard?
To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up like a sapling before him,
like a shoot from the parched earth;
there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him,
nor appearance that would attract us to him.
He was spurned and avoided by people,
a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,
one of those from whom people hide their faces,
spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured

while we thought of him as stricken,
as one smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our offenses,
crushed for our sins;
upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole,
by his stripes we were healed.

We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way;
but the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all.

Though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth;

like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers,
he was silent and opened not his mouth.

Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away,
and who would have thought any more of his destiny?
When he was cut off from the land of the living,
and smitten for the sin of his people,
a grave was assigned him among the wicked
and a burial place with evildoers,
though he had done no wrong
nor spoken any falsehood.
But the LORD was pleased
to crush him in infirmity.

If he gives his life as an offering for sin,

he shall see his descendants in a long life,
and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him.

– Isaiah 53: 1 – 12

Prayer

Thank You Lord, Saviour, Messiah, Redeemer.

Thank You Lord.

 

Always & Forever,

To The Lamb.

With all my love.

30-March-2018