Evening: Psalms 19, 46; Matthew 10:24-42
Jesus’s words sound harsh to our ears, we who have become accustomed to desiring and expecting comfort. One old cliché says: ‘Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable’. I don’t like it much (maybe because I’ve gotten too comfortable!?) but it rings with truth. When we finally comprehend that peace may only be won through suffering, we may begin to move towards it. We have not yet grasped – for we resist the hard words of Jesus – how demanding it will be for us, even with God’s help, to set this old world to rights, including ourselves.
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