There are a lot of Christians who at one time were competing for the Lord Jesus Christ, but who have now turned their back on that competition.  Our minds tend to focus on our own difficulties, frustrations and problems and everything else around us tends to fade into the background.  If there was ever a man who had a right to focus on his own troubles, difficulties, frustrations and problems to the exclusion of everything else, that man was our Lord Jesus Christ.  Instead, Jesus tells the women mourners, “Do not weep for Me.”  Happy is the Christian man or woman who in the midst of trial is so confident in the goodness of God, that no matter what that trial may be, they can say, “Do not weep for me.”  Jesus was not preoccupied with Himself but was concerned for other people in the midst of His darkest and most dangerous hour.  We must never be caught up in our own problems and concerns, that we forget about the desperate need of the people we meet every day.  Bearing witness to Jesus Christ is the most important game in town.  One of our most wonderful privileges is to stand up and speak up for the Son of God, our glorious and wonderful and coming Savior.

Other passages: Luke 22-23:1-26; Matthew 27:26-31; John 19:1-3; Revelation 6:12-17; Psalms 1:3; 1 Peter 4:17