Immersed in His Passion (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Walking with Christ present, beside him going to Jerusalem when the Messiah came home Into the city of David to ...
Walking with Christ present, beside him going to Jerusalem when the Messiah came home Into the city of David to ...
Christ alone in the garden aware of what he faces sorrow unbearable to the point of death Praying to the ...
In his time of trial temptation to turn from the path they were sleeping in danger his all too human ...
The disciples with them all but the betrayer in the garden with our savior sleeping while he prayed Unable to ...
Christ confident, waking the sleeping disciples greeting the betrayer and the guard who came to hold him to bring him ...
At the table with them one of the disciples chosen by Christ to be the betrayer turnings him over to ...
From the palms triumphantly entering his city the crowds shouting hosanna welcoming the king but the joy did not last ...
Death, almost palpable stalking the unholy night the savior in a corrupt trail the reaper waiting with his scythe The ...
The tempter, the betrayer the powerful in their houses bringing the prophecy to fulfillment evil stalked the night The Messiah, ...
The righteous, the leaders elders of the people doing evil in the eyes of God failing to keep the covenants ...
Unfairly accused in the mockery of the trial in secret, in the night the righteous acting unjustly Scheming to catch ...
Mere coins for the betrayer what a terrible cost the price of his blood resting on his head Money for ...
The sky in the garden that night after Passover how it must have seemed foreboding tension in the air, thick ...
In the darkness, the garden the betrayer prowling the night time running down praying, sleep heavy staking the garden the ...
So much pain, so much crying the weight of that moment too much for him to bear We sitting, tired ...
Frozen, in silence we in the garden stopping where he told us our master farther on His cries making us ...
The moment had come the betrayer on the way alone in the garden Christ going to pray Crushing sorrow that ...
So many other choices a range of other outcomes what he could have done in that moment of decision at ...
Knowing what was to come Christ knowing fully the terrible suffering the fruits of the choice he was making there ...
repeated more than once marking time, in threes that thy will, oh God not my own but your will would ...
What they must have seemed the disciples in the garden unable to stay awake asleep while the master prayed With ...
After the Passover the words that Christ spoke stopping in the garden their eyes heavy with sleep Three chosen, going ...
Coins for the betrayer arrest at night A trumped up case false witnesses an oath before God a judgment against ...
Christ knelt down, a servant to them all washing the feet of the twelve all of them, knowing what he ...
they were all at the table sharing the Passover dinner all set apart, sitting with the Master sharing the ancient ...
Without the Thursday, without the Friday There could be no Sunday miracle A holy Thursday carrying out God's plan fulfillment ...
Even the betrayer, the one who shared the bowl who would give him over to man even him, Christ washed ...
Closing the chapter of ministry, of the training of the disciples he gave them the gift of himself, in the ...
Dipping the bread, his body into the wine, his blood so was the betrayer, the one who gave him over ...
What? Dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart? To take all mine and give me none again? Or ...
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