The thrilling scene of the crowd waving their Palm branches and shouting "Hosanna" is behind us now, and we continue on our journey to the Cross.
I wonder how the Master felt when Judas, one of His own, covenanted with the chief priests and captains to betray Jesus unto them? The hour soon came for the last Passover. Jesus sat down with the 12 and said -- "I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer." Then Jesus gave this startling announcement: . . . "the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table." I wonder what Judas thought and felt at that awful moment!
The scene moves ahead to this holy week of 2016. The Master sees me and you just like He saw Judas so long ago. Psalms 139:1-4 reads: "O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether."
As I journey with Jesus through this holy week, I want these words in verses 23 and 24 to be the longing of my heart and the prayer upon my lips: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
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