Condemned to Death

[Edwardjohn]

As I was reading Today’s reading I had a thought. It was while I was reading Isiah 53:7&8. In the early nineties I was the counselor/case-manager of Death Row at the Indiana State Prison. There was a manifest doom permeating the cell-block. All those men were condemned to death and they were all very bitter. This bitterness, sometimes, caused some very violent and destructive behavior. Behavior being everything we say or do.
Our Lord was aware of His death, I suppose, from the time that He was able to reason. He walked this earth a condemned man. Yet, even with that hanging over Him, He forgave sin, healed the sick, set the oppressed free, presented the Kingdom of Heaven, obedient to the Father, He never rebelled. Blessed be His Holy Name.

And I have a question. How does one learn obedience through suffering?

 

[ejb21]

You ask a difficult question.

It’s possible that part of the answer may be found in the spirituality of abandonment to Divine Providence. I’m not really sure I properly understand this form of spirituality but it goes something like: everything that comes to us is part of God’s Will, either His Ordaning Will, or, His Permitting Will. It’s kind of like praying the Our Father : Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We can also see this when Jesus prayed in the Garden that the “cup” be taken away, but Jesus finished the prayer, not His Will but The Father’s Will be done.

It’s a difficult and interesting question. I hope this was of some help.

 

[Edwardjohn]

You ask a difficult question.

It’s possible that part of the answer may be found in the spirituality of abandonment to Divine Providence. I’m not really sure I properly understand this form of spirituality but it goes something like: everything that comes to us is part of God’s Will, either His Ordaning Will, or, His Permitting Will. It’s kind of like praying the Our Father : Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We can also see this when Jesus prayed in the Garden that the “cup” be taken away, but Jesus finished the prayer, not His Will but The Father’s Will be done.

It’s a difficult and interesting question. I hope this was of some help.

Yes it was and it agrees with the other responses I’ve received. I asked the question, I can’t remember where in this forum, and it seems that the consensus is summed up in what you stated. Thank you.