40 Days of Compassion

Good Friday

Good Friday. A true day of compassion. Off to service now. Confession and then meditation.

I was at Palm Sunday service last week and I was overwhelmed by the selflessness of Jesus’ life. I sat there in my pew,  tears began to fall, and I thought of how selfish I can be, but more importantly, I began to believe in the idea…what if I was as selfless and giving as Christ?

Now of course, Jesus was the master, the messiah, and the Christ, so I can not even shake a stick at his level of giving and compassion for mankind. But he did say:

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12.

I don’t think he said that to create a population of water walkers and on the spot wine pressers, but more to inspire us and empower us to believe…believe that we too can as loving and giving and forgiving as himself. Jesus served as a living example, in the flesh, of what God believes we can be. Here he is, in full flesh, saying, walk like me, talk like me, and you too will find “the way.”  Jesus’ statement of being, “the truth and the way and the life” gets used as a banner statement for Christian exclusivity; that if you are not with Jesus and don’t accept him as Lord and Savior that you are going to get burnt. I think that statement is far more challenging than that…challenging to all of mankind, not just those seeking a religious order to join. Jesus is beckoning all if us…not just Jews, Christian, etc, but every human being…to walk and talk like him: to forgive, to love, to give, to heal, to be patient, to teach, to embrace, to be humble, to show compassion. In that walk…we not only find God, but we find the wealth of good that we innately have since we are created by God. But being good and selfless, sometime is not the easiest choice to make…as we all found on this journey.

2 more days left. Loved it all. Off to service.