God lives and works today, and nothing brings
Him more joy than to find people who
are willing to really follow Jesus.
What does it mean to follow on the
way of Jesus in everyday life?
The answer is in today's meditation by Basilia
Schlenk called Choose Jesus' Way.
When did Jesus receive the greatest power of
authority?
When He was arrested in Gethsemane and committed
Himself to being powerless.
His hands were bound, and He couldn't work
at all.
Yet, with His hands nailed to the cross,
He accomplished the greatest deed of all time.
On the cross, He accomplished our redemption.
When Jesus was arrested, His disciples lost their
confidence in Him.
Jesus had told them on the way to
the Garden of Gethsemane that they would all
fall away.
Why?
Because He did not act as they thought
He would, in power and glory, but rather
in weakness and powerlessness.
We too experience this.
We ask Jesus to prove His power in
our sickness, in financial or family problems, in
emotional conflicts and temptations.
Yet Jesus seems to be powerless.
It seems as though His hands are bound.
He is silent when we cry, It is
just the same as it was at the
arrest.
There He did not speak the word of
power that would have made the earth open
and swallow up the soldiers.
Yet the hours of His Passion were hours
laden with the greatest power, power to redeem
the whole world.
Love that endures, suffering in silence, has power
over all things.
But this power will only be revealed in
His time.
When Jesus seems to be powerless, when His
hands seem to be bound and He doesn't
come to help us, He has a very
special purpose.
He is entreating us, When I don't come
to help you immediately and you do not
understand me, have faith in me.
Expect me to bring you the help and
the solution that you need.
Trust that this delay is necessary in order
that I might accomplish more for you than
if I had answered immediately.
Expect something special in this situation.
Strength arises out of weakness, light out of
darkness, a glorious victory and resurrection out of
defeat and apparent loss.
But who believes this?
Who trusts Jesus when He seems to be
bound with chains?
Jesus is looking for souls who will not
lose confidence in Him when He veils His
power.
He longs for souls who will trust that
He will reveal His power in His time.
He waits for those who will believe that
in the end, the answer will be even
more wonderful than that which they had expected.
Jesus is seeking disciples who will go the
way of suffering and endurance in the knowledge
that glory comes from suffering and victory from
apparent loss.
Jesus went the way of the Lamb, enduring
everything in silence.
But this way of chains has become a
majestic way because it was taken by the
King of all kings.
Jesus will also bring victory out of defeat
for all who will go this way with
Him.
Here on earth they will have great power,
and above they will be seated on thrones.
Let me, Lord, go along with you.
Both joy and sorrow share with you.
Close at your side forever.
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