End In Sight

What are some things we look to end?  Paying off a loan.  Running a marathon.  Buying diapers and formula.  Setting a morning alarm.  The anticipated end to such things is often great and when “the end” comes, we look back and wonder how we endeavored to persevere to … the end!

 

What would you do if you knew today was your last day on this earth?   Most likely, we would overlook the trivial things of life and do our best to make each moment significant.  Jesus knew well His time was growing short.  He knew the last time He would enter Jerusalem, visit the temple, the last time He would share a meal and laugh with close friends, the last time He would have need of His dusty sandals, the last intimate conversation He would have with His disciples.  Just a few days before His arrest, we find Jesus in the Jericho countryside but not distracted, He tells His disciples: “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and He will be raised on the third day.” (Matthew 20:18-19)  We know from Scripture the religious leaders were already plotting against The Messiah, but to be sure – Jesus was not walking into a trap!  He arrived on earth ON purpose WITH a purpose, and His journey to the cross did not begin in Jericho or Galilee or Nazareth or Bethlehem: the taste of the apple was still on Adam’s tongue when Jesus considered the journey He would make to Calvary.  The Son (Father and Spirit) always had the end in sight, and the Great Love [for us] that began Jesus journey is the same Great Love that brought His journey to the Perfect End.  Oh, what a Savior!