alone.
a devotional by Cain Kellerman
Easter always reminds me of feeling alone. My parents often
would not let any of my friends over when I was a kid,
because they didn't want to get caught doing anything illegal.
So, I spent those Easters when I was young alone. This also
happened when I would go to jail. You guessed it, alone
again. Sometimes you would get locked up with someone
you knew, but the jail would often isolate you from them, at
least in my case. I always felt that the court appointed an
attorney that wasn't for me and instead always against me.
None of my “good friends” had any money to put on my
books, and a lot of them also had warrants so they wouldn't
visit me. I sometimes felt like I was completely abandoned.
If I knew I was going to jail, I would try to throw a going
away party.
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Now check this out, the night before Jesus was arrested He
spent it with His friends at a party. He took care of His friends
by washing their feet, a custom that the lowest servant would
have done. During the dinner, Jesus said that one of His close
friends was going to turn Him into the authorities. In Mark
14:19 it says, “And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to
Him one by one, ‘Is it I?’ ” After that Jesus said that all of
them would run away when He would be arrested. It says in
Mark 14:29-31, “Peter said to Him, ‘Even if all are made to
stumble, yet I will not be.’ ” Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I
say to you that today, even this night, before the rooster crows
twice, you will deny Me three times.” But he spoke more
vehemently, “If I have to die with You, I will not deny You!”
And they all said likewise.