Psalm 69:8-10, 21-22, 31-34
8 I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.
9 For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
21 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
31 This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33 For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
In the midst of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for us, God saw Jesus needed help to carry the cross. In the terrible events of that day, the day God changed the sins of the earth, the day that God gave us eternity in the blood of Jesus Christ; in the midst of Jesus’ mortification, Simon of Cyrene, father of Rufus and Alexander, helped Jesus carry the cross. Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21 & Luke 23:26.
8 I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.
9 For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
21 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
31 This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33 For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
In the midst of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for us, God saw Jesus needed help to carry the cross. In the terrible events of that day, the day God changed the sins of the earth, the day that God gave us eternity in the blood of Jesus Christ; in the midst of Jesus’ mortification, Simon of Cyrene, father of Rufus and Alexander, helped Jesus carry the cross. Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21 & Luke 23:26.
That day the Son of God continued to fulfill prophesy and to provide us atonement of our sins. Because of that day, we are victorious over death in the name and grace of Jesus Christ. We should be touched by that love and do as Jesus asked us to do.
John 13:34
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Jesus, we are told in John 1, is the light of the world. Light does not become darkness, Love conquers all. Consider, if you were Simon of Cyrene, an act of kindness to Jesus, compelled or not, in His most desperate hour would touch you for eternity. And think the strong likeliness that Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 16 is about Simon of Cyrene’s family.
Romans 16:13
Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.
Let us not forget the victory for us in that terrible time and remember:
Psalm 69: 33 For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
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