Thursday, April 5, 2012

"I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you..."


I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” (Luke 22:14)
“I have been waiting a long time for this moment. And yet it’s been just a moment from when it all began. There, in Eden, that garden that I made for them. It was so beautiful. But there is where my first people chose the wrong way, the way of death. I promised to crush the head of the one who led them astray, and that moment has come.”
“I have been waiting a long time for this moment. And yet it’s been just a moment from when it all began. This Passover meal was instituted just before my people’s redemption and salvation from slavery in Egypt. My people have been celebrating it every year for many centuries and it has all been pointing to this moment. This Passover, the Temple, the sacrifices, all of it, all of it has always been about me and has pointed to this hour, this moment. That Lamb we are eating tonight – that will be me in a few hours – the sacrificial lamb for the redemption and salvation of my people. “
“I have been waiting a long time for this moment. These are all my friends, my students, and soon I will be sending them out into the world as my ambassadors. I love them so much. There’s so much I have told them and shown them during the past three years. And there is so much they just didn’t understand. And there is more I want to tell them tonight. But time is short…time before it’s all over…and also before it just begins for them. Then, then all of them will understand. Yes, they will understand and will experience so much as they proclaim what they have seen and heard. Bringing me to the world will bring them so much suffering – and yet, so much joy. Just like what I have to do so very soon – so much unbearable suffering, and yet, so much joy. “
“I have been waiting a long time for this moment – when I give them my last will and testament – that I will be with them in this meal I am making new in this hour. This is how I will be with them until that moment when I return and when all things are made new. It is time. This is my testament for them…”
“Take and eat, this is my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me…take and drink, this is blood of the new testament shed for you for the forgiveness of your sins. Truly I say to you, I will not drink of it again until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

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