Those Who Knew Him
This is a very short passage today. I’ve read it perhaps a hundred times. Yet, today I saw something I had never seen before. When Jesus died miraculous signs happened. Jesus committed His spirit into His Father’s hands. The centurion praised God. The witnesses beat their breast and went away. But, and this is what I hadn’t really noticed, “all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.”
This put me in mind of the Second Coming. Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica and told them about when the Lord Jesus would be revealed from heaven in blazing fire with His powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know Him. Elsewhere we are told that they will cry out to the rocks and hills to fall on them and hide them from the face of the One who sits on the throne. But for those who “know” Him it will be quite different. Paul says that He will be “glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed.”
Some things don’t change.
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"I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
A sinner, condemned, unclean.
refrain:
Oh, how marvelous! Oh, how wonderful!
And my song shall ever be:
Oh, how marvelous! Oh, how wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!
When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
’Twill be my joy through the ages
To sing of His love for me."
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