Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
They were judgmental and fearful, the Pharisees and Herod. The last thing they wanted was for Jesus’s message of the kingdom of God being at hand to take hold among the people. Jesus threatened the status quo, threatened their positions, threatened what they had been told all their lives was right and true.
And so it is today. Our political leaders and more than a few of those who would call themselves our spiritual leaders are judgmental and
fearful. Focusing on Jesus’s teachings runs counter to their agendas. It casts light on their very human failings, failings that surely we are called to forgive but that threaten their positions and standings.
You might feel powerless. You might feel discouraged. You might feel that there is nothing you can do personally to set the world aright. And you would be right—if it were not for the fact that the Lord is always there, hand extended, offering to join you in the struggle.
Spoiler alert: The leaven of the Pharisees and Herod didn’t win the day in AD 33. It will not win the day in 2019. Fill your heart and soul and mind and body with the leaven that lasts. Listen to Him, and you will understand.
