Daily Lenten Reflections..Thirtieth Eight Day "JESUS SUFFERS!" Monday, March 30, 2015

Jesus suffers!

Holy week is a time to reflect on the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus because it is the story of our salvation. 

Jesus indeed is our light and salvation and that salvation is wrought with unbearable suffering that Isaiah prophesied. 

Jesus is the ‘suffering servant’ gives us a model of how God works in world through a patient hope. 

Kathleen Norris tells us that this prophecy is of great use to us in our Holy Week journey if we remember that it’s not just about Jesus, but about us. 

Isaiah is describing any one of God’s faithful who willingly and humbly takes on suffering as the cost of giving witness. 

I cannot but think of the persecuted Christians in the middle-east, people with debilitating and terminal illness, the elderly and the ‘anawim’ who have to endure untold misery for the sake of

                                                        their commitment to Christ. 

When there seems little reason to trust, when our lives are on the line and unwelcome changes obliterate our sense of God’s presence, it is hard to trust alone. 

But we are not alone. 

The “cloud of witnesses”, Abraham, Sarah, Joseph, Mary, the martyrs of our own time who all had to take uncertain and even dangerous paths in order to further God’s purposes are with us in our Holy Week journey. 

So it’s a time endure courageously any misfortune that come in our way with trust and hope for victory indeed is with Jesus and His victory is our victory. 

What personal suffering do I have to bring to Calvary this Holy Week and what is that one thing that I need to let go to follow the path of Jesus? 

JESUS REMEMBER ME...

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