Be Quiet!
Scripture: I Corinthians 1: 27-31
Wednesday of Holy Week is one of the quietest of them
all. Biblical scholars aren't sure what happened on this day, as there is
nothing explicitly recorded as happening. All we know is that Jesus was most
likely in Bethany and spent the night there. In the storm of controversy which
was to come, it was good for Jesus to
have a "quiet" day, don't you think? (When is the last time you took
a day off for Sabbath?)
There's a popular notion in cultural Christianity that
our worth is based on what we do for God. The more we do and the more people
who know us and affirm our ministry, the more we are loved by God and the more
blessed we are. Yet, even here in the midst of the holiest of weeks, Jesus
reminds us that such an attitude is totally off-base. It is not the busy that
God chooses to use; it is the foolish-- the foolish who take a day off in the
middle of a busy week so that they have something of God to say at the end.
Though it is popular wisdom to go and "be all
that we can be," it is good to stop and remember in quietness that
ultimately life is not all about us. And, we are beloved by God in our resting,
as much in our doing.
Prayer: Lord God,
as night falls this evening, remember me of the blessedness of rest. May my
mind be cleared of every thought, every worry, every concern, and may those
ideas be placed in your hands, so that when I rise in the morning, I may be
filled up and able to take another step toward the cross again. AMEN.
The Reverend Elizabeth Hagan
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