I am studying the crucifixion account in
the Gospel of John, the gambling for His clothes, the adoption of His mother,
His fair weather friends asking for His body.
One of the most meaningful aspects of John’s account is Christ’s cry
that He is thirsty. I wonder if He hated
that sensation, if it was the singular event that once again reminded Him of
His imprisonment in the human form. It
is an all out effort to keep a human body satisfied, its physical needs alone
can drain us, it is always in need, food, water, warmth, safety, cleanliness,
cutting its nails, brushing its teeth, it is the most demanding of all my
relationships. But it is our spiritual
needs that the body most desires, it drives us to all manner of actions, Holy
and unholy, in order to satisfy its insatiable desire for The Real
Spiritual. In the greatest example of a
Humans desire for Spiritual Reconciliation, Christ death and separation from
His Father, it is stunning that the Battle of All Battles was interrupted by
His physical thirst. That human body
will not give in, it will have its demands met or die trying. He wasn’t dying of thirst but His Human Body kept
nagging Him it was.
Carracci's, Samaritan Women At The Well |
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