Evening: Psalm 44; Zechariah 1:7-17; Luke 22:39-53
One week before Christmas Eve, the Gospel of Jesus’s arrest and crucifixion carries a stark reminder … The Christ-child we now celebrate eventually suffers and dies while confronting evil on behalf of his people. Jesus seeks to protect his disciples from suffering the same fate that befalls him. Realistically, Peter and the others need to escape so they can continue Jesus’s work; their own day of trial will come soon enough. Evil inevitably confronts every child that is born; we all have to tackle evil in our lives. Jesus wants us to be ready for that challenge.
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