Genesis 35:1-29; Psalms 7:1-8:9; Matthew 19:16-20:16
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? Luke 24:26
The disciples were deeply distressed by the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. They had anticipated, as the prophets had promised, that the Lord would take His place as King. The reason for their distress was that they had been selective in their reading of Scripture. Old Testament Scriptures had also made it abundantly clear that His suffering would precede His glory. So often when times of suffering and grief come into our lives, like the disciples, we can become distressed, forgetting that such events are part of God’s plan for us in the present, but that the glory lies ahead.
—W. H. Burnett
Midst the darkness, storm and sorrow, one bright gleam I see,
Well I know the blessed morrow, Christ will come for me.—P. Gerhardt