Loneliness

I have been thinking about Jesus's journey to the cross, today being " Good Friday". Reading Matthew 26 : 36-46 and Mathew 27 : 26-66. It was what they call alone beyond being alone, it started in the garden of Gethsemane. He said to the disciples " My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry here and watch with me. " The ones who were the closes to Jesus could not understand the emotions and feelings Jesus was going through. Jesus prayed to the Father, " O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." It wasn't the thought of the suffering of death on the cross, it was the separation of being away from the Father's presents , because he would have bore all our sins on the cross.

I believe God has a set time to deliver us from this type of loneliness, it usually comes in our worst hour of our trial. We come to God and say " Lord, I can't do it- you have to deliver me. I surrender all to you."

Can you imagine, who can possibly understand Jesus's thoughts and feelings, which are so much removed from those of any other person? Even the disciples , who were his closest companions, they just didn't get it, especially at Golgotha.


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The Good News said…
Lord Jesus Christ, my heart hurts to think of all of the pain and suffering You endured for me. Thank You for Your gift of love that sets me free.
What is good about ‘Good Friday’ is not the passing pain that was part of the process, but the unsurpassed beauty that resulted and remains to this day, and that shall remain throughout eternity. "I can't imagine the degree of pain and suffering Jesus, took on to bore our sins..no one can every feel our sins he took on, just to give us eternity. When I don't face my sins..I put him right back on that cross..I don't what to do that. During this time of reflection of how much Christ Jesus, loved me to set me free, In my heart I reference, how a mother’s inexplicable pain instantly transforms into immeasurable pleasure when she first holds her baby in her arms… Thank You Jesus for loving me!!! Amen Amen !!!
March 30, 2019 at 1:48 PM
The Good News said…
I asked myself many times where were the people who Jesus healed, gave comfort, even raised from the dead, as Jesus took the journey to the cross. When a person becomes chronically ill, the abandonment starts, slowly as the burden of seeing that love one going through so much suffering. For some reason, the pressure of how their illness effects them, the effort to visit at the hospital, the emotional burden of that person coming to mind knowing their need. I can't even imagine how Jesus felt on his journey to the cross, the loneliness of abandon, yet he didn't say a word, being beaten to unrecognizable, cursed and spit on and on and on. Jesus needed comfort as He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. He knew what He was about to face: betrayal, arrest, and death. He asked His closest friends to stay and pray with Him, telling them that His soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow” (Matt. 26:38). But Peter, James, and John kept falling asleep. Jesus faced the agony of the garden without the comfort of a hand to hold. But because He bore that pain, we can be confident that God will never leave or forsake us (Heb. 13:5). Jesus suffered so that we will never have to experience separation from the love of God (Rom. 8:39). His companionship makes anything we endure more bearable....
April 12, 2019 at 1:55 PM
The Good News said…
Personally, I have become one, who is dependent on others to care for my needs. Having MS, you go through some dark valleys and no one but Jesus can help you carry that cross. Isaiah 53 :5 said it best.. "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
April 12, 2019 at 2:01 PM
The Good News said…
This week, I wanted to get all the noise out my head and focus on Jesus's journey to the cross. When I came across “A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind” (Mark 14:51–52). I said Lord, what is Mark trying to say here, with this random illustration place in the middle of a tragic moment where Jesus is about to be taken away by Judas's betrayal. The Lord spoke to me very clearly, Mark had a goal in telling this particular story. And to determine this “doing,” we must pay close attention to the text itself. Then the Holy Spirit put in my spirit that At one time these disciples had left all to follow him. But now, in the abandonment of even the shirt off this young man’s back, Mark shows us this naked runaway as symbolic of the total abandonment of Jesus by the band of disciples who fled to escape the consequences of association with him. When before the disciples left everything to follow Jesus. I'm so sad because it's so true...when someone is isolated or fallen ill we see this type of abandonment in our own personal lives. We can look at the accuses given, when it comes to visiting a ill love one. We become so uncomfortable, our mind switches to the burden it would be, instead of all the blessings it would be for those so sick. At the Mount of Olives on his way to Gethsemane, Jesus had warned his disciples that they would all fall away ( Mark 14 verse 27). Peter protested that even if all fell away, he would not ( Mark 14 verse 29); and the rest of the disciples vehemently denied the possibility that they would be faithless ( Mark 14 verse 31). Yet, now, they fled. Mark was very smart in his writings, to make us search our own experience with Jesus journey to the cross,It appears, that the garments have been exchanged (in a literary sense, of course): the “linen cloth” the young man wore, that was stripped from him rendering him naked ( Mark 14:51–52), covered Jesus’s body in the tomb ( Mark 15:46). In exchange, the “white” garment Jesus wore at his transfiguration now covers the young man who makes the announcement at the empty tomb (Mark 16:5). In other words, the runaway’s garment of shame in Mark 14 becomes Jesus’s in Mark 15, and Jesus’s garment of glory in Mark 9 becomes the reporter’s in Mark 16.
April 15, 2019 at 12:46 PM
The Good News said…
An act of random kindness...Even though Simon, was focused to come to the the side of Jesus, when he was brutally beaten almost until death, in human form. Simon, after being in Jesus presences, realize, the act of coming along side of Jesus in his time of need, if we can reflect on those that are dependent on the care of others. The person that have cancer, a disability, Jesus shows me... we that are dependent, can walk side my side with Jesus, through those difficult times.Gospels: Matthew 27:32, Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26.
April 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM
The Good News said…
Murthy writes, “I met lonely people who felt homeless even though they had a roof over their heads.” Maybe what people experiencing loneliness and people experiencing homelessness both need are homes with other humans who love them and need them, and to know they are needed by them in societies that care about them.
July 21, 2020 at 6:19 PM
The Good News said…
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July 23, 2020 at 6:14 PM
The Good News said…

I have fallen into a well of darkness,the Lord had me look into Mother Teresa's ministry and the leprosy of loneliness. She keep journals of the worst diseases, worst then the actual particular leper ‘covered with leprosy.’ It affecting his face, his arms and hands, his legs and feet. He could have been a mass of ulcers and sores from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. He looked loathsome with a smell of decay and death. It's an awful picture of what a disease can do. Every time he put some food in his mouth with finger-less hands, or tottered along on his stumps the spectators knew how ill he was. But his physical illness led to the most awful social deprivation,and that's loneliness.
July 24, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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