LIFE SCRIPTS

Then Jesus spoke to the crowd, “Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw? Every day I sat down and taught in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. But all this has happened in order to make what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures come true.” Then all the disciples left him and ran away.
Matthew 26:55‭-‬56 GNBDC

A time comes in the life of a person when he must stand up and be counted. That time is called the defining moment. It separates the weak from the strong, the committed from the self seeking, the faithless from the faithful. That time had come for our Lord Jesus Christ. The time when the crowd overwhelmed Him and His disciples, overpowered them and arrested Him. That time stood out when His disciples left Him when they saw the road ahead and the threats that faced them. That time came at the heels of God the Father confirming to Christ through prayer that He would suffer all the way to the cross for mankind;that time came after His own disciples failed to keep watch with Him and pray; that time came after one of His own disciples betrayed Him to the chief priests and their henchmen. Now, those disciples He so truly loved and spent time with forsook Him and fled. He was left alone with a hostile crowd incited by the chief priests baying for His blood. He was now at their mercy. They could do to Him as they chose to. The road ahead of Him was lonely. It was a road to the place called the Skull, Golgotha. On the way there, He would carry the cross of global shame, the cross of global pain and the cross of global sin which would nail Him onto a wooden cross. He would face ridicule verbal and also physical abuse. He would be denied over and over again by the same disciples He nurtured. He would pay the ultimate price for the sin of man. As scripture says, He bore our burdens on His shoulders. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter house. By His stripes we’re healed.