Silent walk behind the cross this morning, trudging the
familiar trail through Banchory. Stopping at several wide-spots along the way
to hear the story again. To imagine the rejection, the loneliness, the courage
and the pain of Jesus on that first Good Friday.
Silent walk. Time to reflect. To think about his sacrifice.
To recognise that feeling worthless is self-indulgent and untrue; why would
Jesus have died for me, or for you, if we were worthless? In the words of the
ad for a beauty product, he died ‘because we’re worth it’.
Sometimes that is hard to see. Where we see the problems,
Jesus sees the potential. He made each one of us. He knows what is inside of
us. He knows how to draw the best out ... if we just let him.
Spend some time in silence today. Think about why Jesus did
it. Why he left his glory in heaven to live amongst struggling, poor people.
Why he allowed himself to be pinned to the cross.
Because, in his eyes, ‘we’re worth it’. I know, hard to
believe. But it’s true not because of who we are, but of who he is.
Silent walk. Time to reflect on my own path. There are
things which obscure the road ahead. Is it straight? Does it turn sharply, or
bend gently up ahead? Where are the potholes? Where is the ditch?
Uncertainties
fog my vision and I just don’t know. If I allow it to, fear could grip me and
paralyse me into inaction, negating faith.
I won’t allow it to. There is no fear in love, because
perfect love casts out fear. And what I see on the cross of Calvary is perfect
love. Perfect love named Jesus.
Where there are problems, there is potential. Opportunity
for me to see God act in amazing ways. I am open for that. I am alert and
watching, my hand firmly in the hand of Jesus as I expect him to lead me
through the fog.
I refuse to stand shivering in indecision. I will walk
forward, one step at a time, into a future full of hope and joy.
All because of what Jesus has done on the cross,
memorialised today, on Good Friday.
Thanks be to God.
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