Saturday March 24, 2007
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent
March 24, 2007
“The guards answered, ‘Never before has anyone spoken like this man (Jesus)’.”
John 7:46
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Surrender. Wave the white towel. Give in.
So many times, for all intents and purposes, we seek to have our word act upon him instead of laying out the red carpet and letting his word come to us and do with us what he wills. While maybe well intentioned, we tell him of our tiny plots, schemes, ideas, plans, desires and dreams. It is like we are trying to make him give into us when exactly the opposite should be happening. We, the powerless ones, tell the All-Powerful One what to do. Should not the powerless ones totally depend on the All-Powerful One for our needs of infinite and invincible power? In the equation of us and God, who needs who?
I imagine Jesus chuckling (or crying) as he gets billions of people telling him each day how things should be. We dream and plot and plan and scheme and be and do so small because it is about our way for Jesus when it should be about his way for us. And so badly Jesus just wants us to listen and be still and silent. In our silence and awareness of him, we can come to know what the All Powerful One wants to do for all the powerless ones. Desperately seeking to show every believer that he wants to pour of the infinite power of his everlasting Kingdom through our hearts, Jesus dies for us to know, “As far as the heavens are above the earth, so far are my thoughts above your thoughts. My ways and plans are infinitely above your ways and plans. Forsake the powerlessness of your pithy thinking and ways, and come and be and think and plan and do with me.”
Jesus wants us to catch and live the vision he has. The vision is him pouring out the infinite and invincible power of The Kingdom of God through our hearts. A great way that we can often remember this vision that Jesus wants us to live is through the prayer he taught us to pray, “The Our Father.” In this prayer we pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” What does that mean? It means that we want to happen on earth what is happening in heaven. In heaven, all people have become perfect in love through the power of God. And when we pray for that on earth, we are surrendering to the power of God’s thoughts, plans and ways to make us so! In the power of the Kingdom Jesus came to bring, the lame walk, the blind see, the lepers are cured, sins are forgiven and the dead are raised to life. This is the power we are praying for to come through us. And we are not praying for it to happen tomorrow or forty years from now. And we are not praying for it happen over there or then. We are praying for it’s power to happen right here and right now in our hearts and through our bodies! That is what is at stake! That is the vision Jesus wants us to catch and live without restraint.
Surrender. Wave the white towel. Give in.
Live the confronted life!
Fr. John
So many times, for all intents and purposes, we seek to have our word act upon him instead of laying out the red carpet and letting his word come to us and do with us what he wills. While maybe well intentioned, we tell him of our tiny plots, schemes, ideas, plans, desires and dreams. It is like we are trying to make him give into us when exactly the opposite should be happening. We, the powerless ones, tell the All-Powerful One what to do. Should not the powerless ones totally depend on the All-Powerful One for our needs of infinite and invincible power? In the equation of us and God, who needs who?
I imagine Jesus chuckling (or crying) as he gets billions of people telling him each day how things should be. We dream and plot and plan and scheme and be and do so small because it is about our way for Jesus when it should be about his way for us. And so badly Jesus just wants us to listen and be still and silent. In our silence and awareness of him, we can come to know what the All Powerful One wants to do for all the powerless ones. Desperately seeking to show every believer that he wants to pour of the infinite power of his everlasting Kingdom through our hearts, Jesus dies for us to know, “As far as the heavens are above the earth, so far are my thoughts above your thoughts. My ways and plans are infinitely above your ways and plans. Forsake the powerlessness of your pithy thinking and ways, and come and be and think and plan and do with me.”
Jesus wants us to catch and live the vision he has. The vision is him pouring out the infinite and invincible power of The Kingdom of God through our hearts. A great way that we can often remember this vision that Jesus wants us to live is through the prayer he taught us to pray, “The Our Father.” In this prayer we pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” What does that mean? It means that we want to happen on earth what is happening in heaven. In heaven, all people have become perfect in love through the power of God. And when we pray for that on earth, we are surrendering to the power of God’s thoughts, plans and ways to make us so! In the power of the Kingdom Jesus came to bring, the lame walk, the blind see, the lepers are cured, sins are forgiven and the dead are raised to life. This is the power we are praying for to come through us. And we are not praying for it to happen tomorrow or forty years from now. And we are not praying for it happen over there or then. We are praying for it’s power to happen right here and right now in our hearts and through our bodies! That is what is at stake! That is the vision Jesus wants us to catch and live without restraint.
Surrender. Wave the white towel. Give in.
Live the confronted life!
Fr. John
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