Feels Like Death
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Have you ever been so downtrodden that you felt like you were dying? Have you ever experienced sorrow so crushing that you felt death? Have you felt like death?
In the Garden of Gethsemane, in the face of his betrayal and the road to the cross, Jesus said to his disciples, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” (Matthew 26:38, ESV).
Facing the agony of death on a cross, Jesus experienced all the feelings of death, and then he experienced the agony of death. Jesus knows what our sin and death feels like, because he experienced it and shouldered it on the cross.
May we watch with Jesus in prayer when we feel like death because of our sinfulness and this broken and death filled world.
A Collect for Maundy Thursday: “Almighty Father, whose most dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it in thankful remembrance of Jesus Christ our Savior, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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