His holiness and his humanity

Over the next couple days, we see Christ's humanity - his sadness, his loneliness, as well as his boldness, his courage, his compassion. Every year, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday show me more of Christ, and I come to love him even more. We see his bravery and his deep, selfless love. We see him choose to wash his disciples' feet as he prepares for death. We see him cry out for another way, but choose to die for us anyway despite his fear. His reality and the reality of what he has done for us hits me in a new way each year at this time. And, as usual, there is a specific passage from the Narnia chronicles that comes to mind:

"Please - Aslan,” said Lucy, “can anything be done to save Edmund?”
“All shall be done,” said Aslan. “But it may be harder than you think.” And then he was silent again for some time. Up to that moment Lucy had been thinking how royal and strong and peaceful his face looked; now it suddenly came into her head that he looked sad as well. But next minute that expression was quite gone. The Lion shook his mane and clapped his paws together ("Terrible paws," thought Lucy, "if he didn't know how to velvet them!") -The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe


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Tonight and tomorrow the heavens will be silent, remembering what Christ has done for the world. And I with them. Then on Sunday we will rejoice in the REALITY that Christ has risen and is making all things new:

"...he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, 'My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.'" (Matt 26:39)

“...when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” (John 13:1)

“And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’” (Rev. 21:5)