Passover!

Since the Jewish sabbath is on Saturday, the passover took place on Thursday, not Good Friday as we gentiles often celebrate it. Passover was a time when the greatest story in Jewish history was retold - their deliverance from Egypt as they crossed the Red Sea. Jesus was preparing his disciples for the greatest deliverance of human history as they ate passover together. I wonder what was going through his mind as they shared that meal, and the disciples talked about the past significance of everything they were eating, and the anticipation in Jesus' mind as perhaps he's thinking, just wait until this meal is finished, and then SURPRISE, I'm adding a new ending. An ending that points to a brand new future - an ending that explains what my mission among you has truly been about - an ending that has no end. Then he shared with them the bread and the cup; what did that unleavened bread and sweet wine taste like to Jesus, knowing the reality awaiting beyond the symbolic meaning? What would it be like to take on my sin and yours, that antithesis to everything holy? Sin had never entered the relational realm between him and the rest of the Trinity. This would be a seperation only planned but never experienced ... so much about this being human that stunk; yet it was necessary, he had gone too far, there was not turning back .... just maybe the Father might have something else in store he wasn't aware of?? then again, maybe not! Later, he'd take the disciples to the garden, where he loved to pray when in the area, and there he'd seek out the Father's
mind, maybe it wasn't so much to see if he was still on track as it was to see if the Father had had second thoughts?! Second thoughts in the Trinity, that's a strange concept, seems to only have happened once with Moses....