Evening: Psalm 74; John 12:27-36
Jesus is caught in the very human struggle between wanting to avoid danger and stepping right into it. When he does submit, knowing he must, he says, “Father, glorify your name”. Then thunder sounds, or is it God’s voice? In the 1970s, I was a leader at a youth conference ... someone prayed about the nuclear crisis. Immediately, the rumbling of thunder broke the silence. The leader responded, “Well that prayer got through!” Everyone laughed. Thunder greets Jesus’s submission to the growing risk ... It’s as if the thunder says: Momentous change is coming; follow this Jesus and see what happens.
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