His blood was shed for me | Daily News

His blood was shed for me

He called me: I didn’t hear

He touched me; I didn’t feel
He shed a tear; I didn’t see it

With each piercing nail, I made him suffer on the cross in terrible pain. Yet, Lord Jesus looked at me. The sinner I am, sent him to be crucified.

I am distraught; I am ashamed because I am no better than Judas who betrayed his love and sold him for a few silvers. Or for that matter, I am guilty of handing him over to Pontius Pilate.

Where did I fail him?

Why did I fail to understand his precious sacrifice?

When Jesus was the only one I loved who cared and protected me, who walked beside me every day and I stood by and watched him die.

Unseen, unheard, but always near, my precious Father, my Lord, my Shepherd; my all.

Jesus, when you could have walked upon a million flowers, you opted the rugged broken pathways because you knew that is where you will find me; frail, lost and guilty being a part for the world’s greatest injustice done that history reminds us. You showed me the wonders of nature and how to live in peace which I ignored and sent you to die on the cross. You suffered not only on the cross but even as you walked the pathways.

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Once Jesus saw a crowd waiting for him and one among them was a teacher of the Law who walked up to him and said, ‘Teacher, I am ready to go with you where ever you go.’

Jesus turned around and answered, ‘Foxes have holes, the birds have nests but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest’. There was philosophy behind this statement.

What did Jesus mean? Let’s try to find the meaning in these spiritual words. Literally he said to shun everything if one is to follow him and his doctrine. The one who has the conviction, faith and belief to leave behind everything and never look back until he is no more, the one who valise wisdom and one who regulates his life by the light of philosophy and the one who reveals a philosophical calm under trying circumstances; wise calm temperate under worldly temptation just like the Teacher:

To an extent, the Buddha epitomized the words of Jesus to shun luxury, royalty, family and worldly temptation and to meditate in silence by showing the way of truth to his followers though Buddhism existed five hundred years before Christianity. Together, these two great Teachers showed the way to truth and wisdom to the world.

Jesus is the promised Saviour who fulfilled the promises made by God. Though he lived among the Jewish people, he was for the whole world, Jesus’ Journey from Galilee to the Jerusalem and the events therein the last week, culminated his crucifixion and resurrection.

Jesus was ready; he knew he will be betrayed by Judas and led up to be crucified. Though in agony and pain on the cross with his sacred blood dripping and barely a few minutes before he died, Jesus looked down at those around him weeping. He saw his mother Mary, his beloved disciple, John and the woman he loved, Mary of Magdala devastated.

He addressed Mary with all the love of a son for his mother and called upon her to go and live with his disciple John; said the same to John. Take her with you and be a son to her for the rest of your life. He also saw Mary Magdaline crying; the sinner whom he absolved all sins and whom he loved dearly above the rest. Here, the scriptures reveal the abundant love Jesus had for her and appeared to her first after resurrection. It is amazing how she was able to capture the heart of Jesus above all the living during his thirty three years on earth.

On Good Friday, Jesus went back to seek his disciples and found them sleeping worn out of grief and fatigue. Gently he asked them to go up and pray that they may not fall into temptation. Jesus left them and went away. The hour had come but he still prayed on.

Darkness descended in the noon.

The curtain in the Temple ripped apart

Graves opened and yielded the dead who were seen walking in the streets.

And Jesus Christ breathed his last.


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