A SACRED PIT
Today's reading: Psalm 33-35

"...Although I did them no wrong, they dug a pit for me." Psalm 35:7 NLT

Matthew 27:1-2 says this about the day leading up to the crucifixion...

"Very early in the morning, the leading priests and other leaders met again to discuss how to persuade the Roman government to sentence Jesus to death. Then they bound him and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor."

But what about during that night? Where was Jesus? What was He doing?

I know.

He was in a pit. A sacred pit.

A pit dug for him, although He had done no wrong.

I stood in that pit while in Jerusalem.

It's one of the few places they can say with 99.99% accuracy Jesus stood. No speculation. No guessing.

This pit was designed as a holding cell for prisoners. A pit beneath/beside Caiphas' house. A pit He would have been lowered into by ropes. A small pit, maybe 18 feet by 18 feet in size.

I touched the walls He would have touched.

I stood on the ground He would have stood on.

I prayed in the same, the exact same spot, I am sure He spent time in prayer.

I cried in the same place undoubtedly He cried in.

A pit dug for Him, although He had done no wrong.

No pits, valleys, low places or dark times I could ever experience would ever compare to this sacred pit. I will never be called to spend quite a long, lonely, dark night in such a place.

I will always remember the pit they dug for Him.