Today is Good Friday and I can’t help but think of Jesus and what he had gone through this day on the way to Calvary. We must remember you Jesus and all you endured for our salvation. The cross should be no longer seen as a death sentence, but a doorway to our salvation.

The garden of Gethsemane is the place where Jesus released his divinity and took on all the fragility of humanity as he cried out to the Father to take the cup from him, yet not his will but God’s be done(Luke 22:42). He said, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” as he saw the disciples asleep as they just couldn’t fight to stay awake and keep watch(Matthew 26:41). Sleep is a possession of the soul we have no control. Sleep is the weakness of the flesh, it’s like the drug that makes us vulnerable that we give into temptation. God doesn’t sleep nor slumber, neither does the spirit.

When Jesus died on the cross, he transformed the weakness of flesh. The spirit can’t be lead through weakness and temptations like the flesh, only back to God. Before when we die there was what I call nothingness, because of sin, just darkness. Dreaming for us  is the traveling of the spirit out of the body during sleep. I can’t help but believe that’s what death is like. Jesus death captured and control the liberty and vulnerability of the flesh. On the cross Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ” father into your hands I commit my spirit” Luke 23:46.  There was nothing but Jesus flesh that remained to be taken off the cross and buried in the tomb.

Jesus was broken, but in a good way, even through so much suffering. I like to think more of him being broken open, to let us in, than being broken like a shattered glass. After all, “He’s the way, truth and the life!” John 14:6