Devotions Archive Archive: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 Search Archive Print This Article Light sabre Sunday, March 22, 2015 John 12:27-28 Jesus said, "I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name." This is Jesus, thinking out loud. Knowing what is to come, heavy hearted, caught in the tentacles of time. Supremely human incarnation of eternal God, trying to get traction as the future skids out in front of him. It looks out of control. It feels the same way. He cries out to Abba Father. "Glorify your name!" John describes the next moment. It sounds like thunder to the crowd, but Jesus hears words in the thunder. "I have glorified it and will glorify it again." Reading this slowly, I can taste dust in the air and feel electricity before the rain, and watch Jesus change before my eyes. Uncertainty has vanished. His love rushes toward us, because he knows that evil - the Destroyer - is about to be destroyed. He sees it with his Father's eyes. The curtain between heaven and earth is dissolving, past and future settling into the eternal now. Suffering and joy become one. Life rises out of death. And Jesus invites those around to join him: "While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light!" You are the light of all nations, Lord, and of all peoples, and of all of us. You are my light, and you teach me not to shade my eyes, not to hide in the shadows. Because of you, spring's resurrection song never need be far from my lips. "; Add      Edit    Delete