Jesus falls for the third time

Station Nine

– Jesus falls for the third time –

Jesus, your journey has been long. You fall again, beneath your cross. You know your journey is coming to an end. You struggle and struggle. You get up and keep going.

Sometimes we feel that we should have conquered our weaknesses by now. We become discouraged when we’re confronted by the same problems over and over again. Sometimes we get weary. When we have health problems, we can become discouraged and depressed.

Help us think of the cross you carried. Help us continue to hope that we can make the changes in our lives we need to. You didn’t give up; help us find the strength to get up again as well.

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O God by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.