Archive for the ‘Hebrews 9’ Tag
Above: St. Mary of Bethany and Jesus (Nicholas Ge)
Image in the Public Domain
Selfless Love
APRIL 3, 2023
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According to the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship (ILCW) Lectionary (1973), as contained in the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and Lutheran Worship (1982)
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Isaiah 42:1-9
Psalm 36:5-10
Hebrews 9:11-15
John 12:1-11
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O God, your Son chose the path which led to pain
before joy and the cross before glory.
Plant his cross in our hearts,
so that in its power and love we may come at last to joy and glory;
through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
—Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), 19
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Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ
chose to suffer pain before going up to joy,
and crucifixion before entering into glory,
mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross,
may find this path to be the way of life and peace;
through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever. Amen.
—Lutheran Worship (1982), 41
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In context, the servant in Isaiah 42:1-9 is the Jewish people personified, created and appointed to be a covenant people and a light to the nations. In context, this group was about to emerge from the Babylonian Exile, which the Deuteronomistic theology of the Bible explained as divine punishment for persistent, collective violation of the moral mandates in the Law of Moses. To identify this servant with sinless Jesus requires theological gymnastics.
Yet here we are.
Hebrews 9:11-15 presents Jesus as the mediator of a new covenant via his sacrificial death (and his resurrection). Do not forget the resurrection, O reader. Without it, we have dead Jesus, who can do nothing to redeem anyone.
But I am getting ahead of the story.
Each of the canonical Gospels contains a version of the story of a woman anointing Jesus. Scholars tell us that there were two anointings–one of Christ’s head and another one of his feet–and that the Johannine account merges elements of both. So be it. In the Gospel of John, the setting was the home of Sts. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany, and St. Mary of Bethany was the anointer. We read of her, with her hair down (in the style of a harlot, not a respectable woman who could afford expensive nard ointment from India), behaving in an undignified and loving way. We read that this anointing foreshadowed the anointing of Jesus’s corpse a few days later.
Displays of selfless love may shock one. Ponder what Jesus did later that week, O reader. Ponder what St. Mary of Bethany did at the beginning of the week, too. Consider that these acts were different from each other yet had much in common. The application of any given timeless principle varies according to who, when, and where one is.
What does the playing out of selfless love entail and look like where and when you are, O reader?
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
APRIL 8, 2022 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG, PATRIARCH OF AMERICAN LUTHERANISM; HIS GREAT-GRANDSON, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, EPISCOPAL PRIEST, HYMN WRITER, AND LITURGICAL PIONEER; AND HIS COLLEAGUE, ANNE AYERS, FOUNDER OF THE SISTERHOOD OF THE HOLY COMMUNION
THE FEAST OF SAINT DIONYSIUS OF CORINTH, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
THE FEAST OF GODFREY DIEKMANN, U.S. ROMAN CATHOLIC MONK, PRIEST, ECUMENIST, THEOLOGIAN, AND LITURGICAL SCHOLAR
THE FEAST OF SAINT HUGH OF ROUEN, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP, ABBOT, AND MONK
THE FEAST OF SAINT JULIE BILLIART, FOUNDER OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME
THE FEAST OF TIMOTHY LULL, U.S. LUTHERAN MINISTER, SCHOLAR, THEOLOGIAN, AND ECUMENIST
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Link to the corresponding post at BLOGA THEOLOGICA
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Above: Bethany, 1894
Photographer = Daniel B. Shepp
Image in the Public Domain
A Faithful Response, Part III
APRIL 3, 2023
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The Collect:
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
—The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Isaiah 42:1-9
Psalm 36:5-11
Hebrews 9:11-15
John 12:1-11
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Psalm 36, taken in its entirety, contrasts evil people with God, whose steadfast love is precious. That juxtaposition of human evil and divine steadfast love is evident in John 12:1-11, with the plot to kill the recently raised Lazarus (11:1-16) joining the plot to scapegoat and kill Jesus (11:45-57). That juxtaposition is also present in the background in Hebrews 9:11-15.
The most likely identity of the faithful servant of God in Isaiah 42:1-9, in the original context, is the faithful Jews. One might easily understand the identification of the servant with Jesus. Furthermore, one might expand the identity of that servant to include all the faithful people of God–Jews and Gentiles alike. Collectively we can do more than anyone of us laboring individually. The spirit of God is upon us. We have the responsibility to teach the true way to the nations, to bring forth that true way, to set prisoners free, and to liberate dungeon-dwellers. We ought to live for the glory of God and the benefit of our fellow human beings, not for ourselves.
Jesus has shown us the way.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
MAY 25, 2018 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINT BEDE OF JARROW, ROMAN CATHOLIC ABBOT AND FATHER OF ENGLISH HISTORY
THE FEAST OF SAINT ALDHELM OF SHERBORNE, POET, LITERARY SCHOLAR, ABBOT OF MALMESBURY, AND BISHOP OF SHERBORNE
THE FEAST OF SAINT MADELEINE-SOPHIE BARAT, FOUNDRESS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART; AND ROSE PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE, ROMAN CATHOLIC NUN AND MISSIONARY
THE FEAST OF SAINT MYKOLA TSEHELSKYI, UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLIC PRIEST AND MARTYR
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https://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/a-faithful-response-part-iv/
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Above: Temple of Solomon
I scanned the image from a Bible salesman’s sample book from the late 1800s. The volume is falling apart, unfortunately, but it is quite nice to have nevertheless.
Faults of the Temple
MARCH 4-6, 2024
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The Collect:
Holy God, through your Son you have called us to live faithfully and act courageously.
Keep us steadfast in your covenant of grace,
and teach us the wisdom that comes only through Jesus Christ,
our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
–Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), page 28
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The Assigned Readings:
1 Kings 6:1-4, 21-22 (Monday)
2 Chronicles 29:1-11, 16-19 (Tuesday)
Ezra 6:1-6 (Wednesday)
Psalm 84 (All Days)
1 Corinthians 3:10-23 (Monday)
Hebrews 9:23-28 (Tuesday)
Mark 11:15-19 (Wednesday)
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How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
My soul has a desire and a longing to enter the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
–Psalm 84:1, Common Worship: Daily Prayer (2005)
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The Temple at Jerusalem was the heart of Judaism for a long time. There, for centuries, was the Ark of the Covenant. The Temple was where one had an especially palpable sense of the presence of God, although God dwelt everywhere. King Solomon, using forced labor (see 1 Kings 5:27-30), oversaw the construction of the first Temple, an elaborate structure. Forces of the Chaldean/Neo-Babylonian Empire destroyed Solomon’s Temple in 587 B.C.E., but the Persian Empire provided support for the construction of the Second Temple. King Herod the Great, a client ruler within the Roman Empire, expanded the Second Temple greatly, creating the Temple of which we read in the Gospels. That Temple was the seat of Judean collaboration with the Roman occupiers. It was also the site of the sacrifices of animals which poor people had purchased with currency they had exchanged for a fee; Roman currency was technically idolatrous. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer in the name of piety. The Temple system was corrupt.
This was why our Lord and Savior criticized that system and competed with it. Thus many of his staunchest opponents benefited from that system. Regardless of the number of purifications and rededications of the Temple, the flaw therein remained, for the upkeep of the Temple depended greatly upon money from people who could not afford to pay.
Thus Jesus, in the New Testament, replaces the Temple and the accompanying system. In him are no political conflicts of interest related to collaboration with an occupying power. In him are no demands for fees the poor cannot afford to pay. In him there is no corruption. He is the Passover lamb, whose blood, death, and Resurrection have atoned for sins. (The Passover lambs in the Book of Exodus protected Israelites from the sins of Egyptians, not themselves, by the way.) He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is, in the words of 1 Corinthians 3, the foundation of the Church, God’s building.
And Judaism has done quite well without a Temple since 70 C.E., not that one should celebrate the Roman destruction of Jerusalem during the First Jewish War.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
DECEMBER 10, 2014 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINT JOHN ROBERTS, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST AND MARTYR
THE FEAST OF HOWELL ELVET LEWIS, WELSH CONGREGATIONALIST CLERGYMAN AND POET
THE FEAST OF KARL BARTH, SWISS REFORMED THEOLOGIAN
THE FEAST OF THOMAS MERTON, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST AND MONK
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https://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/faults-of-the-temple/
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Above: Stained-Glass Version of the Moravian Logo
Image Source = JJackman
The Lamb Who Has Conquered
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2023
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The Collect:
O God, your Son chose the path that led to pain before joy
and to the cross before glory. Plant his cross in our hearts,
so that in its power and love we may come at last to joy and glory,
through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
—Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), page 30
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The Assigned Readings:
Isaiah 42:1-9
Psalm 36:5-11
Hebrews 9:11-15
John 12:1-11
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A Related Post:
Prayer for Monday of Passion Week/Holy Week:
http://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/prayer-for-monday-of-passion-weekholy-week/
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Your righteousness stands like strong mountains,
your justice like the great deep;
you, Lord, shall save both man and beast.
–Psalm 36:6, Common Worship (2000)
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The Synoptic Gospels tell us something powerful and vital visually: Jesus entered Jerusalem that signal day on the back of a beast of burden. This was a clear sign within his culture, for a king who had won already rode such an animal to the peace talks. Thus our Lord and Savior entered Jerusalem triumphantly not as a conquering hero but as one who had triumphed already. As the wordy Jesus of the Fourth Gospel says,
I have overcome the world.
–John 16:33b, Revised Standard Version—Second Edition (1971)
The servant of God in Isaiah 42:1-9, in the original meaning, is the Hebrews, the Chosen People. That mandate is also the assignment of all the faithful people of God—Jews and Gentiles—to shine brightly for God and to work justice-righteousness. (Justice and righteousness are the same in the Bible.) One test of how well we perform on that standard is how we treat others, especially the vulnerable. That is a good idea to remember as we proceed through Holy Week and approach the liturgical observance of our Lord and Savior’s judicial murder—his crucifixion.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
NOVEMBER 28, 2013 COMMON ERA
THANKSGIVING DAY (U.S.A.)
THE FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN THE YOUNGER, DEFENDER OF ICONS
THE FEAST OF SAINT JOSEPH PIGNATELLI, RESTORER OF THE JESUITS
THE FEAST OF KAMAHAMEHA AND EMMA, KING AND QUEEN OF HAWAII
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/the-lamb-who-has-conquered/
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Above: Moses
Image Source = Billy Hathorn
Exodus and Hebrews, Part IX: Mighty Acts of God
APRIL 10, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Exodus 15:1-18
Psalm 97 (Morning)
Psalms 124 and 115 (Evening)
Hebrews 9:1-28
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A Related Post:
Prayer:
http://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/prayer-for-monday-of-easter-week/
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If the LORD had not been on our side….
–Psalm 124:1a, The Book of Common Prayer (1979)
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The reading from the Book of Exodus consists of the Song of Moses (and the Israelites) immediately after the Exodus. They are very happy and filled with praise of God. Enjoy this while it lasts, O reader, for the grumbling starts before the chapter ends.
In Hebrews we read a masterpiece of Platonist philosophy (via the concepts of heavenly forms and earthly shadows) applied to Christology. We continue to read about Christ’s superiority to the Law of Moses. The first tent preceded the second tent, the Holy of Holies, home of the Ark of the Covenant. Entrance to the Holy of Holies was restricted, with only one priest going there one day–the Day of Atonement. But, with Christ’s sacrifices completed, there is atonement. That is one message of the text.
If the LORD had not been on the side of the Israelites, they would have remained slaves in Egypt. If the LORD were not on our side, we would not have Jesus Christ, our great High Priest, who
has made appearance at the last age, to do away with sin by sacrificing himself.
–Hebrews 9:26c, The New Jerusalem Bible
Such mighty acts of God demand an affirmative response, do they not? May we act accordingly, individually and collectively, by what we do and choose not to do.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JUNE 2, 2012 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN OF SWEDEN, ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARY, BISHOP, AND MARTYR
THE FEAST OF THE MARTYRS OF LYONS (A.K.A. SAINT BLANDINA AND HER COMPANIONS)
THE FEAST OF REINHOLD NIEBUHR, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST THEOLOGIAN
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/exodus-and-hebrews-part-ix-mighty-acts-of-god/
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Jerome Pradon as Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar (2000)
(A Screen Capture I Took Via PowerDVD)
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April 5, 2023
Collect and lections from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
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Follow the assigned readings with me this Lent….
Kenneth Randolph Taylor
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Isaiah 50:4-9a (New Revised Standard Version):
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens–
wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.
The Lord GOD has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backward.
I gave my back to those who struck me,
and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.
The Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame;
he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who are my adversaries?
Let them confront me.
It is the Lord GOD who helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Hebrews 9:11-15, 24-28 (New Revised Standard Version):
But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occured that redeems them from the transgressions of the first covenant.
For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own; for when he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Psalm 69:6-15, 20-21 (New Revised Standard Version):
Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me,
O Lord GOD of hosts;
do not let those who seek you be dishonored because of me,
O God of Israel.
It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my kindred,
an alien to my mother’s children.
It is zeal for your house that has consumed me;
the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
When I stumbled my soul with fasting,
they insulted me for doing so.
When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.
I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate,
and the drunkards made songs about me.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD.
At an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me.
With your faithful help rescue me from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
Do not let the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or the Pit close its mouth over me.
Insults have broken my heart,
so that I am in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none;
and for comforters, but I found none.
They gave me poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
John 13:21-35 (New Revised Standard Version):
After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared,
Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.
The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. One of his disciples–the one whom Jesus loved–was reclining next to him; Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked him,
Lord, who is it?
Jesus answered,
It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him,
Do quickly what you are going to do.
Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that, because Judas had the common purse, Jesus was telling him,
Buy what we need for the festival;
or that he should give something to the poor. So, after receiving the piece of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
When he had gone out, Jesus said,
Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
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Matthew 26:1-5, 14-25 (New Revised Standard Version):
When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said,
Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.
[Note: Verses 6 to 13 tell of an unnamed woman anointing Jesus’ head with “a very costly ointment” at the home of Simon the leper in Bethany.]
Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,
What will you give me if I betray him to you?
They paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying,
Where do you want us to eat the Passover?
He said,
Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, “The Teacher says, My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”
So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.
When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve; and while they were eating, he said,
Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.
And they became greatly distressed and began to say to one after another,
Surely not I, Lord?
He answered,
The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to the one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.
Judas, who betrayed him, said,
Surely not I, Rabbi?
He replied,
You have said so.
The Collect:
Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped, and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Judas Iscariot was a disappointed man.
Jesus was not the person Judas wanted him to be. Judas did not understand the true meaning of Messiahship. This is understandable, given the context, which was Roman occupation. To expect a Messiah who was a national liberator was not unusual, given those circumstances. This was a common expectation, after all. Yet something else was wrong with Judas, for he betrayed Jesus.
Judas had some severe character faults–namely, greed and dishonesty. And so the fatal cocktail of ingredients came into being. Yet Judas played an important role in salvation history. Let us remember this always.
Jesus commanded his Apostles to love one another as he loved them. He loved them and everyone to the point of self-sacrifice. History and tradition tell us that, of the eleven surviving Apostles, only John did not become a martyr, and that he endured his share of suffering. And Matthias, Judas’s replacement, became a martyr. Martyrdom, although not every Christian’s ultimate call, remains a real possibility for many Christians today.
In an earlier devotion I wrote of disappointment with Jesus. I stated that Jesus was and is the person he should be. He was and is what he should be. Therefore, any disappointment with him indicates erroneous expectations, not any fault with Jesus. Does Jesus disappoint us? If so, we need to examine ourselves spiritually and seek divine aid in correcting this matter. Let us not betray Jesus, too. Rather, may we follow Jesus, whatever that entails.
KRT
Published originally at SUNDRY THOUGHTS OF KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR on March 26, 2010
http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/judas-iscariot-and-disappointment/
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