Monday, 06 Feb, 2012
Steve Popoola is the editor of Biblepraise Newsletter and The founder of Biblepraise Fellowship Online. He lives in London where he works in the IT industry as a software developer. He has served in various capacities as Teacher, singer and writer in the body of Christ. He currently serves as assisting minister in his local church as well as helping out in the Music Ministry. He also speaks at invited chrurches/forums.
A few days ago, I was at home watching a documentary on how some Japanese youth were being taught how to identify with the old people. They were taught that as a person ages, certain organs of the body begin to fail. Some of the effects could be blindness, stroke, arthritis among others.
Afterwards, everyone was made to ‘feel’ what these old people experience through simulation. Some of them had pads placed over their eyes for a whole day.
Thomas is not with the other disciples in the upper room on this night of great rejoicing. So devastated by Jesus’ death is he that he has no desire to see anyone, even the other disciples. In fact, he has no more desire to live. He sits all day thinking of all the horrible things that have happened in the past little while. He recalls Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and how joyous an occasion that was. But it seemed from then on everything went downhill for his Lord and his friends and himself.
Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32, 33, 36, 37; Luke 22:39-45; John 18:1.
Jesus and the disciples, all twelve, have spent hours fellowshipping together over the meal–the Last Supper.. Jesus dips the morsel into the sop and hands it to Judus. Judas accepts it. Christ declares Judas the traitor. Judas leaves the upper room. John 13:26