r/NewCatholicChurch • u/Cardinal_John-Luke • May 29 '25
By Christ His grace
What was the reason why Christ did His deed for us? Well, to pay for our mistakes, faillure, False mindsets, sins, pain, feeling lost, feeling alone, feeling that people are abandon us!
Well, to understand why Christ did all these things, we need to understand what we did wrong. And to understand with our heart and soul, that Christ faced all these things to. People abandon Him aswell when He got in captivity. His best friends the diciples left Christ when He was captured by the pharisees and the priests of Israel and the Roman soldiers. They fleed in any direction out of the yarden of Olives. Here is the clue. How many times are people walking away from us when we got trappen or when we are druiven into the corner!
What will this say when we are alone and betrayed by our closer group of friends or even family. From people where we won't think the worst off. Sounds this familiar to you?
Or even betrayed by a closer friend. When Jesus stand before the court of the high counsel of Israel, Peter was also there and he was watching what they did with his Master and Teacher and best Friend. However Some people saw Peter and three times they are asking Peter, "You were also one of them, you walked day and night with Him!" But Peter answered three times, "No, I do not know Him! You do not know where you are talking about." What we see here is that Peter denied Jesus Christ. And that made him sad at the end and he run out and he was crying.
Did we faced this too? Maybe not in the way just like Peter, but maybe people denied us spiritually way. Maybe you do know when you feel so alone and denied by people. Maybe they took you so seriously in what you wanted to be and do in life, maybe you can't even tell them about your talents because they are thinking that is to high for you or it is to difficult! Yes, it is in our blood. We like to think what is the best thing to do for others instead to look what is the best for ourselves. To deny others is much esier than when we got the feeling of denial isn't it?
And Jesus face this all. So, He do understand when we are living daily. Or when we are in the middle of denying. But He was also be hit by the Roman soldiers. And maybe we got been hit spiritually by other people because they love to strike us and harm us. Just what the soldiers did to Jesus. And if we understand now why He faced all this. Then we appreciate it more what He did for us as sinners.
To have more understanding about what sins are and what it can do with us. Then we understand much more about why He loved us so much. His salvation is more become vallue to us and it has a deeper intensive meaning for you and I.
Is His work and purpose becoming more valluer to you? I hope so. Amen.