Travelling can be both an enjoyable and a challenging experience. “Dad, I have
to go to Norwich tomorrow for my firm. Do you think it would be best to go straight
from Romford Station or from Liverpool Street.? It will take half an hour to get
to Liverpool Street but trains might run more frequently to Norwich from there,”
asked my youngest son. We discussed the relative merits of both approaches. However
on the day of his travel Jonathan found he had a bigger problem than he thought.
The whole of ‘One’ Railways was running with serious delays as far north as Ipswich.
He decided to decide when he got to Romford station.
The ultimate journey each of us must make is from time into eternity. It is a mercy
that none of us know which day we are going to make that last journey on. None of
us, except the Lord Jesus Christ. In the first Holy Week leading up to the first
Easter Jesus knew He was going back to Heaven via the terminus of a most violent
and cruel death.
The quote from the Bible on our poster reads -.Jesus said to him, "I am the way,
and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. John Chapter
14: verse 6 (RSV) It is usual to talk about coming and going but this occasion is
about people leaving. Jesus is in the Upper Room which belonged to Mary the mother
of John Mark (the Gospel writer). He has limited time on Earth left and He wants
to say some important things to His twelve disciples before he leaving. One of the
twelve, Judas Iscariot, is going to betray Jesus to the Jewish authorities. Jesus
knows this and tells him in effect to get on with it. John chapter 13 puts the story
this way - 21 When Jesus had thus spoken, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." 22 The disciples looked
at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved,
was lying close to the breast of Jesus; 24 so Simon Peter beckoned to him and said,
"Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."25 So lying thus, close to the breast of
