BE STILL... AND KNOW



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the Biblical messages received by me, today – Holy Good Friday – was this:


“The Lord will fight for you;


You need only to be still.”


EXODUS 14:4


On a day like Good Friday, this message does make a lot of sense.



We Christians believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. But, we also believe, that when He lived His life here on this earth, He did it exactly as we did: He laughed and cried, He wondered and surprised, He braved and feared, felt wounded and healed… worried, hoped and loved… Yes, He went through the whole gambit of human experiences which any one of us would.



When the most grueling time of His life was nearing, He was wrought by the same human conflict: to fight or flight. He found no strength left in Him to fight… He was tempted to ‘give up’ the fight… and flight. Yes, He was wrecked by fear, sorrow and loneliness.



Finally, Jesus goes, all alone, into a quiet place called ‘Gethsemane Garden’… There, He kneels down and prays before God one of the most heart-wrenching prayers: “My Father, do away this Test from me; but if it is Thy wish, Thy will be done.”



This was the most profound moment in Jesus Christ’s life. The Holy Book says, so intense was His prayer, that He sweat blood!



But, then with this prayer, Jesus’ – the man – had defeated fear!



It was after this poignant moment in the Gethsemane, that Jesus comes out like a Valiant… fearless in the face of the toughest time of His life…



“Who are you looking for?” He asks the blood-thirsty mob.



“Jesus the Nazarene”, they scream.



“Here is he,” Jesus offers Himself!



Jesus has become ‘still’ by now!



Rest of the fight isn’t a fight at all…



It is God’s wish fulfilled!





The suffering of Christ and his death on the Cross 

is the victory over fear, victory over mortality… 




Jesus needed to be still… to know the God’s grace within in Him. For that, He needed to be on His knees… and pray intensely…



Rest of His fight was the ‘spiritual fight’… and it was fought by God for His beloved Son…



To fulfill what was written, long before the Son was sent on His worldly mission!





A Holy Good Friday to all of you…



May we all pray… May we all ‘be still… and know’… Yes, that, the Lord will, surely, fight for us.





GERALD D’CUNHA



Pic. Malabika Ganguly

Comments

Yash Suvarna said…
Appropriate for the day. Very soothing. Yash
Anonymous said…
Wish u a holy Goodfriday, sir. Minal
Kilan Mathew said…
Very inspiring write-up. thnks.
... Kilan

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