TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, APRIL 15
Isaiah 49:1-6
John 13:21-33, 36-38
Here it is. The
moment of truth. Destiny. This is the reason Jesus had been sent. And the moment had arrived. He tells Judas to go ahead and do what Judas
intends to do. Jesus knows what the
following hours will bring. He knows
that even his best friend will desert him.
He faces his appointed hour with a mixture of anguish and courage.
Our destiny as Christians is to practice our faith in the
everyday moments of life. It is easy to
be a Christian until the alarm rings. It
is in dealing with other people, living out our responsibilities and
obligations, being accountable to family, friends, bosses, and society that we
find our faith difficult to practice.
Sometimes we think our faith is only tested in the big moments: our company is downsized; our house is foreclosed;
our child dies; our spouse leaves; our diagnosis is cancer. These events test us, too, but it is much
more often that our faith is tested in little ways. Do we or do we not hold the elevator door
when we are running late?
Christ died for us, and we are called to face death over and
over as we practice our faith. We are
called to give ourselves over for little deaths of varying degrees of
anguish. We are called to face our lives
with the courage we derive from our faith so that we can practice that faith in
very real ways moment by moment throughout our lives. Our moment of truth is here and now, the
present, this very second.
- By Lisa Lenard Chiles
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