Sleepless this Thursday with the Lord
April 1, 2010 | 
Author It’s late.
It was Thursday that the Sovereign of the universe was being taken back and forth throughout the night to 6 mock trials. He was handled by men. He was willing.
There was no more rest for Him, for His hour had come. We cannot watch and pray. We cannot understand. We cannot do anything apart from Him – and He was laying down His life.
In glory, He never rests. On earth He took on gravity. This night marked the end of His earthly rest until His body would submit to lifelessness – still and heavy. We did that. He was willing.
It’s late. I will sleep tonight, though – because that night was His hour; that night He rested not; that night He was handled by men; that night He was willing; that night He redeemed me; that night He hinged history and bent it all back to the Garden.
He did it all while we slept.
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Amen!
…WAKE UP…or else…
“If they do these these things in a green tree, what shall be done in a dry?” (Luke 23:31) Spurgeon’s meditation on this truth should be an awakening alarm clock that explodes the inner man to true repentance leading unto salvation! “If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself, the dry tree, shall fall into the hands of an angry God? When God saw Jesus in the sinners place, He did not spare Him; and when He finds the unregenerate without Christ, HE WILL NOT spare them. Oh sinner, Jesus was led away by his enemies; SO SHALL YOU be dragged away by the fiends to the place appointed for you. Jesus was deserted of God; and if He, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOU BE? What shall be your cry when you say, ‘O God! O God! why hast thou forsaken me? And the answer shall come back, because ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; I, the LORD, also will laugh at your calamity; I, the LORD, will mock when your fear cometh. If God spared not His own Son, HOW MUCH LESS WILL HE SPARE YOU! Ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners, who would stand in your place when God shall say, Awake, O sword, against the man that rejected me, smite him, and let him feel the smart forever?”
Are you awake yet? Am I?