Three Great Emotional Events

The Bible is full of heavy emotion, great emotional events that tug at our souls.  In this blog I will mention 3 great events that are particularly so to me.  Keep in mind that the whole Bible centers around the coming of Jesus.  That is, the Old Testament builds to the coming of the NT, the coming of Jesus.  And of course, the NT is all about Jesus and what we are to do as His Followers.  So it is not surprising that no matter how far back or forward in the Bible we go, we see that the emotion of Jesus is shown.

We begin with the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22.  God told Abraham to take Isaac to a place that He would show him and sacrifice Isaac on an altar.  As they journeyed for three days and proceeded to climb Mount Moriah, Isaac turned to his father and asked, "Father."  "What is it, my son?"  "We have fire and wood, but where is the sacrificial lamb?"  We can feel the emotion building in this trip and this conversation.  And we can see that this is a type of God giving His only Son to be sacrificed.  We know the end of this story is God stopping the sacrifice of Isaac......but not stopping the sacrifice of His own Son, Jesus the Christ.

This brings us to the most emotional of all events, the betrayal and torture and trial and death of our Lord.  You know the story so I won't try to tell it all here....I couldn't do so anyway.  But think of not only the pain and emotional stress of our Lord, but even the effect on His mother, His family, the apostles, the women that had helped Him, on all of the followers who had to stand by as He died.

That brings us to the final event to be cited here.  It has always been a very emotional scene to me of seeing the great event recorded in Revelation 19.  Here we see the Lord sitting on a white horse, draped in a cloak that is soaked in blood amidst an army of people on white horses, all draped in fine linen, pure and white.  This is a view into heaven, a look into the future, of God's saved people who have been saved by the blood of the Lamb.  It is us.....all clean and pure...because our Lord has taken our sins upon Him; thus, the blood soaked cloak He wears.  That is an amazing sight!  He is called "Faithful and True" and His name is Word of God.  Written on Him is "Lord of Lords and King of Kings."  And there is a name on Him that no one knows.  To me this is a most emotional sight.

Thanks for reading.  Keep the faith.  Follow Him.