Evening: Psalms 10,11; Matthew 10:16-23
It’s not a happy metaphor … Sheep don’t stand a chance with wolves, yet Jesus still sends his disciples out! He knows that as they speak for him and serve his purposes they will meet with resistance, even violence, but he commissions them anyway. Good purposes seldom go unopposed. In his own suffering Jesus faces down and overcomes the power of death, whose most active energy is fear. Jesus wants his followers to be aware of what they are getting into when they follow in his Way. But they are reassured … they do not go alone.
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