Journey to the Cross
Journey to the Cross. The kids and I have been reflecting on Jesus’s journey to the cross using a study that I found online for kids. It’s so important for us that the kids know and understand the meaning of Easter.
So we did 4 Lessons for Easter: Lesson 1 was about Palm Sunday when Jesus was welcomed in Jerusalem, Lesson 2 was the Last Supper, Lesson 3 was Jesus praying at Gethsemane, and Lesson 4 was the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus.
Jesus’s actual journey to the cross is called “The Via Dolorosa” (Way of grief/Way of pain). It is said the distance that Jesus traveled with the cross to where he hung and died was about 2000 feet. Could you imagine being beaten to the point that you were unrecognizable and then having to carry a cross, the weight of a person for that distance, for people who cared nothing for you? I can’t either. So this never ceases to amaze me or to put me in awe…the amount of agony/pain/hardship Jesus endured for us. What an awesome Savior we have in Jesus!
So we should remember the Journey to the Cross, today, this weekend and everyday that we live.
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” I Corinthians 1:18.
Happy Easter Lovelies!
~Natasha