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Morning Devotion for Eastertide
May 2, 2025
Reading: Luke 3:19-20
So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people. But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done, added to them all by shutting up John in prison.
Meditation: Jo Ann B. Jones
It is always a dangerous thing to speak the truth, and yet the person who allies himself or herself with the truth, may, for the moment, end in jail, or be subject to the death penalty. In the final analysis that one may be the victor. Certainly, that was the case with Jesus Christ. In a sense, nothing would be quite altered for Jesus, that is whether he lived or was punished by death. It was the same to him for human “power” did not quite have that effect or sway over him. That is one feature that so distinguishes Jesus Christ. On the other hand, for humankind, it was Plato who once said that the wise man will always choose to suffer wrong rather than to do wrong. Which would each of us choose to do?
After a good and lengthy discussion in Christian Formation meeting on the significant limitations human beings have to effect good, I have seen the need to truly recognize this altogether human limitation invites us to face this reality: we simply cannot effect: God’s grace. Let that be sufficient for whatever our needs are.
A Prayer for Quiet Confidence
O God of peace, who has taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be our strength: By the might of your Spirit lift us, we pray you to your presence, where we may be still and know that you are God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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