Evening: Psalm 138, 139:1-17; John 11:45-54
The powerful fear that people will follow prophets who demand justice. Prophetic Belarusians, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Maria Kolesnikova, and Russian, Alexei Navalny, are currently in mortal danger from murderous clandestine powers. In John’s Gospel, Caiaphas, the high priest, thinks killing Jesus will stifle opposition. And today, some imagine they can silence the prophets. But Jesus’s death, ironically, defeats the powers that kill him. For the creation moves naturally in harmony with the power of life to overwhelm the power of death. The creation yearns for justice and right relationships among all creatures. No unrighteous power can stem this tide.
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