The tenth Station: JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS.
Now the full truth is revealed.The total horror of what the soldiers have done to You is exposed. Jesus You told Your disciples that You would disclose Yourself to the one who loves You, but not this! Not You standing here, vulnerable, naked, stripped of every shread of decency. Jesus the Man of men, the laughing stock of the mob clamouring to see You suffer.
I knew it would be bad. I knew I would feel sick when I saw what lay beneath Your blood soaked robe. They have decimated Your body. My Jesus, full of wounds and purple bruises from head to foot, so many lashes I cannot number them. My God I thought I knew how terrible it really was, Your scourging. Jesus...my sins did this to You?
It's time to call it quits! Calling all angels! They must be here ready to rescue You. I'm not worth it. No more humilation for You Jesus! I complain if someone even looks at me the wrong way or cuts me off in traffic.
Now I really am crying. They have thrown Your cross down on the ground behind You and are showing the nails to the centurion...
I had vowed My love before time was begun.
How I loved YOU with each rising sun!
I carved YOUR face in redemption's plan,
long before a nail ever broke My hand.
~Jesus
