Friday, February 13, 2015

Friday, February 13, 2015

“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.” ~ Mark Lawrence

LEVITICUS 15-17

Further instructions are now given for cleanliness, day of atonement and eating blood
 11For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

    MATTHEW 27:1-31

    24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
    25All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”

    28They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. 30They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

    JOURNAL

    Jesus is mocked and tortured.  To the disciples it had to have been the scariest and loneliness feeling.  Life with Jesus in the flesh was an experience that was beyond a blessing.  Now it must have felt like a curse.

    Their world must have felt like it just ended.  It had...a new life was 3 days away.


    16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

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