Day 33: Un Broken

I wonder what JESUS was thinking

a week before HE was about to have a

"GOOD" FRIDAY

right after

HIS LAST SUPPER.

But was it HIS LAST SUPPER

or was it the disciples' LAST SUPPER?

I wonder what the disciples were thinking

when they were gathered around the table

when JESUS began HIS LAST SUPPER

with the words~

“Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me" (Matthew 26:21)

Yikes!

Can you imagine if you were sitting at the table

and you hear the word

BETRAY.

BETRAY~

To BREAK Faith

To BREAK Trust

So here you have JESUS

who has invited HIS followers

to BREAK bread with HIM

when there was one who was getting ready to

BREAK from JESUS.

Would you have looked around the table

at each guest convicting each one?

Or would you put your head down thinking

that it could be you, yet you don't want it to be you?

Or would you know that it was you,

and that you were prepared to do it anyway?

Oh JESUS knew

the time & the place

& who would be at HIS LAST SUPPER,

and the who would BETRAY HIM.

But because

JESUS is JESUS

HE still LOVED in the midst of what HE knew what was going to happen

after that LAST SUPPER

on HIS GOOD FRIDAY,

because it was all part of

HIS FATHER'S PLAN

that HE followed to the very end

with a

LOVE that is steadfast

that does not waiver

even when HIS followers' faith waivered

because

"All that JESUS did and said flowed out of HIS relationship with HIS FATHER.

HIS sense of identity, who HE was, was not based on

HIS ministry, what HE did,

but just the reverse:

HE did what HE did because HE knew who HE was" (Intervarsity).

Maybe that is why JESUS told HIS disciples

“I am the vine, you are the branches. HE who abides in ME and I in him, bears much fruit;

for without ME you can do nothing" (John 15:5).

To ABIDE~

To Not BREAK FAITH.

To Not BREAK TRUST.

To Not BREAK.

Oh I see myself sitting with JESUS

at HIS LAST SUPPER,

getting ready to BREAK bread,

and I wonder if I would be thinking about the times that

I did

BREAK FAITH

&

did

BREAK TRUST.

Hmm.

Oh I have

because

I was BROKEN

and because

I was not ABIDING in the ONE who never turns HIS back from me

even when I ABIDE in my own BROKENNESS.

It is impossible to LIVE the ABUNDANT LIFE without ABIDING.

Never take a BREAK from JESUS.

“As the FATHER loved ME, I also have loved you; abide in ME love.

If you keep MY commandments, you will abide in MY love, just as I have kept MY FATHER'S commandments and abide in HIS love" (John 15:4).

Will you join me today

and

FAST from

BREAKING FAITH

&

BREAKING TRUST

by

ABIDING IN JESUS

every time you start to

waiver in FAITH

or waiver in TRUST

because of what may be wavering in your life.

"YOU will keep him in perfect peace,

Whose mind is stayed on YOU,

Because he trusts inYOU" (Isaiah 26:3).

And that my friend

is because of HIS

"AMAZING LOVE" (listen to the song below)