December 6, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms
Some of the most significant spiritual lessons are learned from the most unlikely people. Such is the case with the story of Simon of Cyrene. We know very little about this figure who, like a small drop in a giant bucket of water, could easily go unnoticed. But what we do know about Simon should be enough to draw us in close and to draw great encouragement from, especially during these long and uncertain days. I believe Simon has much to teach us on what it means to follow Jesus in the great interruptions of life.
(Read Luke 23:26) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+23%3A26&version=MSG
Life Interrupted
Simon had come to Jerusalem for a totally different purpose but he left encountering Jesus. Maybe there’s a Simon watching this right now. Maybe you jumped on the Internet for a totally different purpose and you stumbled across this message. You didn’t just happen to tune into this. God wants to interrupt your life in the most beautiful way possible. He wants to use this message to free you from your sins like he did with Barabbas and to encourage you that for every cross we have to bear, we can know that it is under God's loving sovereign care. As the old hymn goes, “Shall Simon bear the cross alone and all the rest go free? No there’s a cross for everyone and there’s a cross for me”
