God through Moses, His servant and his Son invites us to lift up our hearts and eyes to the heaven and to the Cross. We should not look down towards the earth and try to escape the pains of the Cross because then we will be in worse pains, like those inflicted by the serpents in the desert. Jesus remained steadfast on the place where he was nailed. Coming down means to permit the evil to touch us. The One who came down from the Heaven for us invites us to direct our eyes towards Him.
The Cross has two dimensions. The horizontal one: what is our relation to the neighbour? Are we in chains in these relations? The second one is the vertical dimension towards God. Are we also nailed and we cannot move? Even in that case, even if we cannot walk towards God, he gives us the opportunity to look at Him, raise our eyes . The eyes are the mirror of the soul and they are sufficient to ask help. God is never late. He may be slow but he comes on time.
That look is the true prayer of our soul that goes up to the Heaven, unspeakable prayers supported by the Holy Spirit. That is the prayer of the servant of God who asks help to not remain alone in the trouble. We often feel alone and abandoned by everyone in the moments of suffering, but today's feast reminds us that every cross, sooner or later, is exalted and glorious. Every suffering is important for God and it leads us to Him, who never abandons us. The Cross is beloved to him, because through it we repeat the sufferings of his beloved Son and he cannot be away from the Son.
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