Thursday, 09 Sep, 2010
Steve Popoola is the editor of Biblepraise Newsletter and The webmaster of Biblepraise Fellowship Online. British by birth, He currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria with wife Maris and their children; Praise, Stephanie and Precious. He works in the IT department of a bank. Formerly an active singer, he still sings occasionally and speaks at invited forums. He presently serves in as Church Secretary in his local church and is also a Sunday School teacher. He is the Moderator/Editor of Biblepraise Newsletter.
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