March 26, 2024 ~ Tuesday in Holy Week
The Gospel of John
12:20-36
On this Tuesday, disciples
Philip and Andrew told Jesus some visiting Greeks wanted to see him and he
replied cryptically, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified...unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains
just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit... [John
20:24-26]
When he met with the Greeks
he told them, "Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say, 'Father,
save me from this hour?' No, it is for this reason that I have come to this
hour. Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I
have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." When the voice came some
of the people only heard thunder while others thought it was an angel speaking
to Jesus. Jesus told them that the voice was for them to hear, not
him.
Some questioned Jesus about
who he was and what he was all about. He told them the light would be
around a little bit longer and to walk in the light because if you
walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. If
you believe in the light, he told them, "you may become children of
the light." And with that, he went off and hid.
Dear Jesus, our Prophet
and our Lord
What must your words sound like to those who haven't read The Book or just
don't know how things turn out? Sometimes I'm confused by
those words and I have read them many times. On this
Tuesday in Your lifetime, You told everyone what was happening
in what seems like very plain words yet the message is not quite
plain enough for us to grasp well. You were talking to God and the people
around you were confused. Help us understand.
On this Tuesday in my lifetime it is a day like any other ~ laundry,
meal planning, bill paying, list making ~ and Your list was clear enough in one
sense: walk in the light ~ Your Light ~ and our believing
will lead us to be Your children of Your light. It all sounds so easy and
yet so hard at the same time.
Help me to give up being one of the grumblers with
the thundering rumblings of the naysayers and the woe-begones around me. Open
my heart, my head, and especially my soul to take on searching
for and listening to hear the voice of God [particularly
when I’m driving and everytime my head starts judging others]. Give
me the courage to take on staying with Your light and
not wandering off into the darkness of a life with no faith-filled purpose
beyond chocolate bunnies, paper plates, and jellybeans. After the conversation
on that Tuesday in Your time, You hid away...as I should do more often
to spend time with You and think about how to live my life as a single
grain of wheat, that grows in faith and purpose, and one day fills another
field with its fruit. amen.
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