Evening: Psalm 18:21-50; Luke 3:1-14
John is an ‘advance party’ for his cousin Jesus, preparing the way, smoothing the path. John practices tvilah, a Jewish ritual washing signifying an inner cleansing, a transformation of the heart. The inward transformation leads to an outward transformation – embodied in sharing clothing or food with the needy, refraining from cheating others and from engaging in extortion. We may work hard to change our behaviours and we may do well ... for a while. But without the heart’s transformation, we easily ‘lose heart’ and flounder. Hands and feet cannot sustain the energy to go where the heart doesn’t want to.
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