"The Days of His Flesh!" - Too

 "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;" (Hebrews 5:7 KJV)

  ""And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike year head, and you will strike his heel."" (Genesis 3:15 NLT)

 From the point in which Jesus cried out to Him that was able to save Him from death, there was a deep change in His passion, almost as if the Father's will had been now turned to His will to get this very important mission complete. Even though He could have done something on His own, as some say, He could have called down a multitude of angels, the passion in His heart was to please the Father and lay down His life without anymore crying or feeling afraid. 

 Yesterday was a little hard for me, but I felt God's presence, and that was enough! It was 22 years ago that my wife had her surgery, and it also happened to be on a Tuesday. I know that I have shared this before, but sometimes I break down and weep, and when I do, most often I can feel a hand upon my shoulder. Whether it is the hand of Jesus or the Father, or and angel, or just my imagination; no matter what, I do feel comforted and most of the time I feel a joy and peace. But there was this once when I just kept weeping, so much so that I could hardly control my emotions; this was happening while His hand was upon my shoulder. Suddenly, after several minutes of me crying, I could feel the hand slipping off of my shoulder, almost gently. It was almost as if He was telling me, as He did to Job, 'It's time to stand up like a man!'

 Once I actually cried over my wife, which is something I promised I would never do again! She had such a look of distress on her face, I realized that my crying was making her sad. Always, now I stand over her with joy in my heart, loving on her and letting her know she is very special. If I feel the need to cry, I take it to another room, which is really now not very often. This will all soon be over, so we must enjoy and comfort each other as much as we can! 

 Anywho, that is my take on this, "Heel Damage," thing, whatever that might actually mean! Besides that Jesus has much more power that Satan does; the illustration is much like a man's foot stepping down on a snakes head and crushing it! Jesus knew very well that it was going to hurt, but the hurt was going to be over! And when all was said and done, the Glory would by far outweigh the hurt...

"He was despised and rejected - a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our back on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all." (Isaiah 53:3-6 NLT)