Wednesday, 3/23/16
The readings present us with the extremes and the
in-betweens in human behavior. In Judas we see evil at its most extreme, as he
goes off to to trade the sweet company of Jesus for a handful of coins that he
will eventually throw away.
In Jesus see its most extreme as he prepares his young
life to face its extinction. “I have not
rebelled, have not turned back. I have set my face like flint.”
In between we have the
disciples in a holiday mood as they ready to celebrate the Passover. “Where do you want us to prepare to eat the
Passover?”
The next evening Jesus will
tell them, “Watch and pray that you may
not enter into temptation?
Instead of praying, they snooze. In Matthew 26:56 we see how they
responded when they were faced with men coming out with clubs and swords: “All the disciples left him and fled.”
If we expect to get by as run-of-the-mill
Christians there is a chance Jesus will say to us what he said to the angel of
Laodicea in Revelations 3:15, “I wish
that you were hot or cold, but since you are lukewarm I will spit ou out of my
mouth.”
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