This week, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I hope you find time to reflect on this Holy Week and are able to spend some time your family and loved ones. Have a blessed Easter wherever you are!
“Being God, Christ knew all that was going to happen to Him.” (John 18:4).
He knew in painstaking detail the events that were to follow soon after He was betrayed by one of His very own disciples.
He knew He was about to undergo trials where all the witnesses against Him would lie.
He knew that many who had hailed Him as the Messiah only days earlier would now be screaming for His crucifixion.
He knew He would be flogged nearly to the point of death before they pounded the metal spikes into His flesh.
He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken seven centuries earlier that He would be beaten so badly that He would be “disfigured beyond that of any man” and “beyond human likeness.”
Jesus was so anxious the night before his crucifixion that while praying in the Garden of Gethsemane he was sweating blood.
All of this, and He did it anyway.
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13)
“He is not here; He has risen, just as He said.” (Matthew 28:6)
