Something completely different to start off.
Its funny but it contains truth and so here goes ...
Am getting more acquainted with the famed Handel's Messiah during this Holy Week.
Track numbers 29 is a recitative for tenor. Slow and sad and deliberate we hear Psalm 69:20, [Thy] rebuke hath broken [his] heart; [He is] full of heaviness. [He] looked for some to have pity [on Him], but there was none; neither found [He] any to comfort [Him].
The tenor then continues to track 30 in this air for tenor utilizing Lamentations 1:12, Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto [his] sorrow. . .
What did it feel like to be Jesus?
He knew his mission to restore us. Back in track 26 (Isaiah 53:6),All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and Jesus wants to bring us back.
And what happened?
Most who heard his message and saw his miracles did NOT believe!
Why?
How many people say, I'd believe in God if I saw him?
Yet, when they saw Jesus they saw God and still ...
In the end, the question for us is autonomy: am I god or is something else god or am I really going to let GOD be GOD?
And so how did it feel like to be Jesus?
To want restoration and see the lost sheep not know they are lost and even if they knew they were lost still running in the wrong direction?
Indeed, Jesus was the man of sorrows.
Me, one person on a rebellious planet of 6.5 billion people.
The earth, one planet revolving around a star that is one star in a galaxy of 100,000,000,000 stars.
The Milky Way Galaxy hurtling through the universe where there is at least 100,000 galaxies.
Jesus, God, creator of the universe become flesh, came to find me.
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