As i reflect on our Lord’s Passion Week, Maundy Thursday is particularly tender. It was a day when servant leadership on the part of Jesus Himself was humbly enacted as He washed the feet of His followers and gave them the new commandment to "love one another as I have loved you."
Maundy Thursday was also a day of betrayal as His friend, Judas, sold Him out to the religious leaders. Maundy Thursday all turned into a day and night of violence after Judas’s kiss in Gethsemane -- where Jesus had been overwhelmed with sorrow in prayer -- just before the temple mob came to violently arrest Him.
But the burdensome evening was not yet over. Jesus was made to stand as the focal point of a manufactued mock trial, and finally they judged Him guilty and had Him thrown into a deep, dark and dank pit for the rest of the night until He would be eventually dragged before the Governor, Pilate, on Good Friday morning.
Finally, the words that ring loudest to me from Maundy Thursday are heard in the grove called Gethsemane when Jesus cried out in passionate and pressuresome prayer to the Father: "Nevertheless, not My will but Thine be done!" Yes, I’ve been thanking my Lord all day for saying "Yes" to God’s plan for my/our salvation and sanctification.
Here’s a YouTube message i filmed in "my Gethsemane Woods" to encourage you especially on Maundy Thursday:
HERE! Presence Matters Most!
No Invisible People! UNITY!
Pastor Kerry Willis
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