[Dream] April 18,2011
...Kneeling to the ground... a dry dusty ground... I feel a heavy weight on my shoulders and back... it feels wet...I see dirty feet wearing sandals...rushed...again my attention is back to the weight on my shoulders and back... I hear the sounds of spitting... and I feel the splatter against my skin... I turn my head to look over my shoulder and notice I am covered in blood... my arms... my chest... my shoulders...my skin is torn... I am covered in spit and blood...as I look around I see Roman soldiers and crowds of people... it's a scene of chaos...yet everything is quiet... I see hurried motions and distraught faces...yet everything is in slow motion... I try to stand...and again I feel the heavy weight on my back.... I notice I am carrying a piece of wood...my eyes are blinded by blood and sweat as I try to see to place one step in front of the other...it's so heavy...the crowds of people...the soldiers keeping everyone at arms distance from me... no one can help...shouting... I can see angry people shouting...yet I hear no words... {stunned at this point as I realize where I am and what I am experiencing.... I black out... only to rejoin ....once nailed to the cross} Now, I see... now I see the face of Jesus...but I look down and notice... I am nailed to a cross....But, I see the face of Jesus and as he takes deep breaths in... and looks upward...up to the sky... I notice the most loving... forgiving eyes...and I hear.... "FORGIVE THEM...THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO"
Dear Jesus,
My sweet loving KING OF KINGS.. Thank you for carrying the weight of my sin... Thank you Jesus for taking my strips...Thank you Jesus.... OH DEAR JESUS... WHAT CAN I DO TO EVER REPAY THE DEBT I OWE.... I OWE YOU MY LIFE... MY ALL I GIVE TO YOU....DEAR JESUS... MY LORD... MY SAVIOR....THE VERY LEAST I CAN DO...IS CRUCIFY MYSELF WITH YOU DAILY...LAYING DOWN MY LIFE AND TAKING UP MY CROSS AND FOLLOWING YOU.....I GIVE YOU MY ALL.... I GIVE YOU MY LIFE~
Luke 23:20-35
"20 Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. 21 But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!22 For the third time he spoke to them: “Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.” 23 But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed. 24 So Pilate decided to grant their demand. 25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.
The Crucifixion of Jesus
26 As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. 27 A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!”’[a]
31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[b] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
