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Theo Tigno•
5/6/2008 10:11 pm
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Wednesday in the Seventh Week of Easter |
John 17:11b-19
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: "Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for those affected by the cyclone in Burma.
I wish that I could say that I am a great defender of Christ's truth, but I know that I am not. After all, often times expressing the truth Christ wants us to be consecrated to is often a "social sin."
Yet, here is Jesus in the garden, praying that we may be consecrated to the truth. Being consecrated to the truth led Jesus to the cross. Why would we get off easy?
My problem is that I want there to be peace, and often times I sacrifice truth for the sake of peace. If you read yesterday's reading, I referenced the song "Imagine" by John Lennon. He wanted people to live in "peacefully" but at the expense of forsaking the truth Christ desires for us to be consecrated to.
Let us not fall for the trap of placing "worldly peace" by sacrificing The Truth, which will ultimately bring us eternal peace through unity with Christ. If you want to be unified with your brothers and sisters in peace, challenge them to truth so that we may all experience peace eternally in Heaven. That is something worth imagining! Take are and God Bless.
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