Passion Week Devo 3
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Silence...
Silence...
Good Morning everyone!
Before we get started I want you to know that tomorrow will actually have a couple devo’s so watch our page as they will drop at different times, with that being said...
It is Wednesday as we continue on this this journey of Spirit week.
And as we come to Wednesday: It is actually known as silent Wednesday.
Because the authors of the Gospel seemed to now record anything on this day.
Of course lots of stuff was going on around Jerusalem as they were gearing up for the Passover festival to begin.
While people were getting ready the religious leaders were plotting to kill Jesus.
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”
It is also believed that durning this time Satan would enter into Judas.
Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
Mark
Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.
While Jesus may have been teaching those at the temple.
Something much more sinister was under the radar.
People met to plan the capture and killing of Jesus.
They met in the silence, in the shadows, before the festival of Passover.
Which was the festival that the Israelites would celebrate to remember the time that God brought them from Egypt.
That God sent this angel of death into Egypt- into the dark, shadowy night, silence fell over the city.
As the angel would approach different houses those who were covered by the blood of the lamb would be passed over.
That night did not remain silent as many Egyptians died.
Yet those who were covered by the blood of the lamb were saved.
It is a picture of the blood that would be shed on the cross in two days.
Knowing what was waiting for Jesus as the end of this journey, I don’t know if I would have wanted to be around a lot of people.
I would have wanted to be with my closest friends.
Even though they did not understand what was about to take place, I would have wanted to spend time with them.
Allow me to just imagine if you will, as their is no story to be told on what happen on this Wednesday before the perfect lamb would be slaughtered.
He would have still gone to the temple to teach and preach for for the final time.
Begging and pleading with them to repent and put their faith in God- the one who sent Him.
Maybe by the end Jesus just wanted to call it a day and go back and rest.
Or maybe he left like he often did to the wilderness to just have a few more minutes with his father.
His father that would eventually not even be able to look at his Son, Maybe Jesus just need a few more minutes alone with his Father.
What ever Wednesday entailed to the authors it was not important to record.
Yet I really wonder what Jesus was thinking and going through as the next day his close friends would all scatter away from him and he would be left alone at the hands of his enemies.
Maybe he laughed a little.
Maybe he was quite.
Maybe he was on edge know what was to come.
The pages of our Bible may be silent, but I bet you that Jesus was anything but silent that day— his mind racing as he was nearing the end.
Maybe he was just preparing himself.
We will never know this side of heaven, but I look forward to asking Jesus what happened on that silent Wednesday.
Today I ask you to take some time just being silent before the Lord.
Listening to him- not speaking, but listening.
Draw near to the Lord and prepare your hearts for what is coming next.
As Friday draws near, we have some much still to cover on Thursday—
See you tomorrow— You are loved.