We now move on to the fifth cry from the cross. John 19:28-29: “Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scriptue would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’ A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.”Â
Selwyn discusses the point that Jesus had refused an earlier drink of drugged wine designed to take the edge off the pain of crucifixion – as ‘Our Lord intended to go into the physical, mental and spiritual pain of the cross with an unclouded mind’. He proposes that Jesus would have appreciated the intention behind it; and concludes: ‘Never think that there has been no value in something you have done with a good intention, even if what you did failed in its immediate object.’
It should be remembered that God sees the intention behind all our actions and in a very real sense that’s where its true worth is found. What do you think?
Good intent
We now move on to the fifth cry from the cross. John 19:28-29: “Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scriptue would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’ A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.”Â
Selwyn discusses the point that Jesus had refused an earlier drink of drugged wine designed to take the edge off the pain of crucifixion – as ‘Our Lord intended to go into the physical, mental and spiritual pain of the cross with an unclouded mind’. He proposes that Jesus would have appreciated the intention behind it; and concludes: ‘Never think that there has been no value in something you have done with a good intention, even if what you did failed in its immediate object.’
It should be remembered that God sees the intention behind all our actions and in a very real sense that’s where its true worth is found. What do you think?