hard times
A Pilgrimage to the Cross
Walking through Lent with Jesus
Monday 14th March
Japan is experiencing its greatest hardships since World War II, Prime Minister Naoto Kan says, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, and a growing crisis at a nuclear plant. Police warn that the death toll in one of the worst-hit areas is likely to exceed 10,000.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Why should we follow Jesus on this journey?
What answers does he give to the hard questions of this life?
Perhaps the only answer is found at the destination- at the cross, where God met pain, and suffering, and death.
We follow Jesus because even at the hardest of times, he does not flinch. He is not a fair-weather Saviour, luring us in with promises of a good life but with nothing to say when life gets hard. His promises are not of health, wealth and happiness, but of truth. And the truth is that this world, and each person in it, is damaged and needs healing.
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.
Romans 8: 18-19
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