The special week…

Tired of monotony, we can escape out of out of this week! It is nothing special about the time, or the days…what happened approximately 2000 years ago is the ingredient that makes it so special and unique: it is the last week Jesus Christ spent it on planet Earth, it is the last week He spent among his apostles, the last week before He went to the Calvary, carrying the humble and so HEAVY cross.

This outstanding week started covered in light, faded away in darkness and pain, and gloriously ended in pure victory!

On Sunday, the first day of the Hebrew’s week, King Jesus made a triumphant entrance in Jerusalem: He humbly entered the gates riding a donkey, in the acclamations of the crowd, welcomed with flowers and hosannas. The Bible tells us He cried. Why did He cry…He knew the human nature, He knew we change, He knew that those who "loved" Him that day will turn against Him in a few days. When I think about that day, I imagine Him, the sovereign God, crying and it is heartbreaking.

Later on, on Wednesday, we find Judah, carrying out his mission: he betrayed Christ, selling Him to the Pharisees. It is easy for us, today, to blame Judah, but we take his place so many times! We are Judah when we deny Him, when we put something above Him, when we let the others step on His name and we don’t say a word!

Thursday came…the last supper with the apostles - a immense humbleness lesson. Judah went after his money and also to tell the Pharisees when they could find Jesus. In all this time, Christ went together with the apostles to pray. It was the night when the pain reached the apogee: His tears turned into drops of blood. Then, the moment came: He was arrested and He was taken to a trial. He was found guilty: He called Himself God.

After a few hours, on Friday, His sovereign hands were nailed and He was hanging on a cross: He was guilty of loving us too much. Though He was humiliated, He had the power to stand on that cross and not come down, He had the power to love and save and not smash us all, he has the power to ask His holy Father to pour forgiveness on us and not to punish us for crucifying His beloved Son. That day, the King of kings gave it all in order to let the cross draw us to Him.

If we stopped here, we could say that the most terrible event occurred: God died. God died…and that was it? No, no! that was not the end, that was just the beginning: after 3 days, just as He said, He gloriously rose from the death, defeating the enemy and death itself, which could not hold down the almighty God, the LIFE itself!!!

We can stop, and meditate: His work here on earth was accomplished, He saved us, He made peace between us and God, He showed the ultimate expression of love, He gave us a new purpose in life, and that is to finish up the race and to finally go Home, our new Home, the best Home.

Coming back tot his week, we can make it special, because He really deserves it. We could spend a day meditating on Him and on what He did, oh and what a glorious thing He did, another day on praying for those who did not meet this gracious Savior, another day doing good who to those who are alone and feel unloved, and in all days worship Him, and respect Him, and love Him, and sing, lifting our voices in victory.

I pray we could all realize what Jesus did: He, the king, the one who has everything, the one who has all the power, almighty God, He died for us so we could be reconciled with Him, so we could have eternal life, and above all we have Him with us daily!

In conclusion, think about this:

" When You stand, the tall trees and mountains bow, when You speak, the fiercest of ocean is still, and I see: the sinners sing devotion, the lost become chosen, and I fall on my knees."

Let us do the same thing…