John 15:18-27
Hate is such an ugly word. I hate it.
I am grateful, however, that my body hates germs. There is stuff in my blood that hates germs and works to kill them off because the stuff knows those germs don’t belong in my body. People who do transplants have to take this into account and work around it or counteract it (I have no idea how they do that) without forever preventing the body from fighting off stuff it should fight. It’s an amazing and heroic thing to accomplish.
It would seem that Jesus is a foreign body to the world, and so also are those who are “in” him. The world tries to reject him and those who are in him. Funny, we don’t mention this in church ads.
How did Jesus handle this? He let the world reject him, and then came back and gave us the job of spreading his wonderfully illogical love for the world that rejected him.
Prayer:
There is so much sense of rejection everywhere, Lord Jesus, and so much need for simple acceptance and unconditional love. Thank you for bearing rejection for us all, and for accepting me as I am. Help me live and convey your Spirit of acceptance, and grow together with others into what you know we can yet be. Amen.
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3 comments:
"simple acceptance and unconditional love"
like a mantra
need to put this
into my daily breath
my beating heart
my rising feelings
and raging thoughts
my every act
and with everyone
i meet or see or touch
"When the Counselor comes" - what is this?
The background of the term Counselor ("paraklete") is said to be as a legal representative, or advocate: someone to stand by and guide and equip you through a legal proceeding. The idea here, I think, is that in the court of the world the Christian has the Spirit of Truth with him/her as a companion.
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