ELEVENTH STATION- REFLECTION
THE ELEVENTH STATION: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS
A. Because by your cross you have redeemed the world
Jesus had all the power there is to save himself from being nailed to the cross. He had the power to disappear from the midst of the soldiers as they derided him and nailed him, spat on him, gave him a crown of thorns and nailed him to the cross.
He had the power, as he himself told us, “to ask his Father and he will send him, at once, more than twelve legions of angels.” And yet, with all the power willingly allowed himself to be nailed to the cross.
Of course, he felt the pain when they drove the nails through his palms, yet he did not fight the soldiers. For love of us and obedience to his Father, he allowed himself, freely and willingly, to go through all this excruciating pain that you and I may be saved.
Jesus, in this act, teaches us how to embrace, freely and willingly, the will of God in our lives. He teaches us that, accepting God’s will, sometimes, will crush with our interests and self comfort but we need to let go of ourselves and allow God’s will to be done.
PRAYER:
Jesus, you underwent this torture that I may be saved. Teach me the way I should go that I may forever find myself worthy to merit your salvation. Amen.
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