Despised by his human
counterparts
And with no hope of aid from heaven
He was alone.
Completely and totally alone
He tread the fierceness of the winepress
ALONE!
God blinked his eyes for the
first time since creation and darkness was upon the face of the earth for the
space of three hours.
The guttural groans from the
heavenly host caused the earth itself to quake and tremble
God held at bay his
innumerable host of angels; ordering each to turn their face away from their
King of Glory and look not upon the event that was occurring upon the earth
below.
For how could they not
attempt to rescue him, by whom and for whom they were created.
He who, while on earth, was
in their charge?
Only by God the Father’s
restraint did they not rip the canopy of heaven from the earth and lay all
humanity to the dust from which they were made.
From His cross, Jesus Christ
looked down on the mob below and found only contempt looking at back at Him. He
gazed upward up for compassion, only to find heaven’s back turned on Him
Alone, He was so alone.
No longer touching the
earth: not yet entered into heaven.
He was painfully alone.
He writhed in indescribable
pain, he groaned in His spirit
Then He died; like all men
before Him, He died!
Satan and all his angels of
darkness cheered as His last breath was expelled from his torn body.
“He is dead, He can no
longer hold the title of “the Prince of Life” for now he lies dead”, they
shouted. “Death” has claimed him to the grave from which there is no escape.
Jesus was unbearably alone
He was carried to a borrowed
tomb and was laid on a bed of stone
As the boulder was rolled into
place and darkness filled the small cavity that Joseph carved into the hillside
He was left there alone
For three days he lay motionless
in this unforgiving bed. Death had seized His humanity and had pulled the life
giving breath from His chest.
He was alone. There was no
doubt that He was alone
Then, as light had barely
begun to overtake the darkness, destroying its nightly reign; in that nanosecond
between the time when night comes to its end and the new day begins, the great
Savior was awakened by and of his own bidding. The dead became the living by
His own power.
Now he can doubtless say: I
AM He the liveth and was dead, and behold, I AM alive forevermore.
