AT THE FEET OF JESUS

     Standing at the feet of Jesus that day in Jerusalem when Christ was crucified stood Mary, the mother of Jesus, and what did she see?
     Mary saw the blood of the Lord. 
     Jesus had been stripped of his clothes was hanging on the cross naked in an attempt by evil people to humilate the Son of God.
     The body of Jesus had been skinned by the Romans as they punished the King of the Jews, and therefore blood was oozing out of the body of Christ.
     The Romans had also pressed a crown of thornes in the head of the Lord and therefore He was bleeding from His head.
     Mary saw the blood of Christ coming out of His hands and His feet from the spikes the enemies of the Lord had driven to punish the Lamb of God, producing pain that not even morphine could stop.
     Mary saw the suffering of Christ on the cross in Jerusalem.  She saw Him covered with blood.
     The Lord had not eaten since the previous night when He instituted the Lord's Supper. 
     The body of the Lord was dehydrated from lack of water.  He was thirsty, He was hungry, He was tired and weary.  He was bleeding and life is in the blood.  He was giving His life which is His blood.
     The heart of Jesus ruptured and He was bleeding internally, then He died.
     This was a time of pain and great sorrow for the Lord and it was also a time of pain and great sorrow for Mary to watch as her son die for the sins of the world.
     But after the resurrection of her son, Mary said:  "Lord".
     Do you see that?   She said "Lord" because Christ became her Lord and Saviour!
     And when the Day of Pentecost was come, where was Mary?  She was in the room praying with all the disciples and she, too, received the Holy Spirit, after which she and many disciples departed Israel and went to Britian to serve the Lord with gladness in the church of believers in Christ.
     At the feet of Jesus, we, too, can receive the Holy Spirit and thereby serve the Lord with gladness.  We go out a different way just as Mary went out a different way. 
     There were also other believers standing at the feet of Jesus that day and they, too, were in the room praying on the Day of Pentecost.
     The Day of Pentecost was the day of the birth of the church of Jesus Christ and we are now living in the Church Age.
     The new birth of Christ in us begins at the feet of Jesus, for it was Jesus who took the pain that we will have eternal life in Him; for without Him, there is no salvation.  And this salvation is a free gift from the Lord for He has redeemed your sin.  But you must accept the gift.
     For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.  (John 3:16)