Trust

Will you come?

 Perhaps we can take a lesson in humility from the circumstance of Holy Saturday. None of us was at Golgotha, let alone the sepulcher, and certainly none of us was privy to anointing and  clothing of the Body of Jesus. That mystery is for the human race, like a great stone wall through which none of us can see. Death itself is a great enough mystery to terrify the whole world, and Jesus faced it, and passed through it to realms of which we know nothing.

Yet, Jesus can be with us who wish to be, and to be His possession, so that we can pass through the mystery of death and life and our transformation.  

We must make ourselves utterly available to Him, and pliant in His hands. That is to say, we need faith which Jesus Himself wishes to give personally to each of us, sufficient for whatever He asks of us. If it will be sufficient, then the mystery is, for us, already revealed and accomplished; there is no need for fear or apprehension. The number of ages through which our existence was summoned no longer matter; we already exist, and we will continue to exist, and the way of our existence is safe in His hands, so we may learn trust, and love and faith. If we have matured in Christ, then we no longer need to worry that we have not fulfilled our part of the bargain. Jesus has died, and while we wait to die, we prepare to live in Him, according to His promises.

Christianity is not about ego, vanity or despair nor disappointment. He is not troubled with our disappointment, because He holds  our belief in His hands where it can be safe, so that our security is no longed founded in this life, but already exists in Christ.

What security can we provide Jesus in the matter of a loan He has granted us? We can only pledge our life, and our weakness and sinfulness, against His certainty and His own pledge of salvation. The matter of failures must be swallowed up in the accepting love of God which assures us of His love, a love that covered us with divine life so we would be well-supplied before our passage has been accomplished.

My Jesus We trust in You.