Dogpile

How many times have you been dogpiled? Or better yet how many times have you been the beginning of a dogpile on someone else? And I am not talking about the picture to the left, I mean a human dogpile. Do you even remember what it feels like to be under that much weight at the bottom or even close to the bottom? You have so many people on top of you that you can barely breath or feeling that your head is about to pop from all the blood rushing to your head?

Have you ever been dogpiled with all the weight of this world? You felt as if your under so much pressure that if one more thing would happen then you would lose your mind? Jesus felt this way when he was in Gethsemane. In Matthew 26:38, Jesus says to Peter, James and John, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death." Can you imagine how exhausted and horrible he felt as he is saying this? He said he is feeling so much sorrow to the "point of death". I have had some bad days and weeks, maybe even months, but not so bad where I have said that the sorrow is overwhelming me so much to the point of death. Jesus was dogpiled way beyond our understanding. He was dogpiled by the sin that people commit. All the pressure was from you and me being selfish in our own little world. This was so much pressure on Jesus that he says twice, "Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me." Jesus being human wanted all that pressure relieved. He wanted all the sins off his shoulders.

But Jesus says to His Father right after this, "Yet not as I will, but as you will." Jesus knew that there was no other way for us to have a relationship with His Father, than for Him to bear the sins of the world and be dogpiled. Thanks to Jesus that we have Him who willingly laid himself down at the bottom of the dogpile.

Next time you are joking around with your friends and trying to dogpile each other, stop afterward and take a little time and remember who took on the ultimate dogpile.

Live it,

BB