Wednesday, III week of Easter: 22nd April, 2015
Acts 8: 1b-8; Jn 6: 35-40
When things were getting worse the believers were getting stronger. They were scattered, but once in diaspora they continued their witnessing. There was something in them that made them just reckless about their new experience. That experience was so gripping that it made them forget all the pain they had to go through.
We keep receiving news after news of people who are ready to give up their life at the hands of the heartless fanatics these days. They too are capable of it because they are gripped by the experience they have had of the Risen one.
Just yesterday read about a preacher who wishes to go to Syria, to be of assistance and consolation to the people who are being persecuted for their faith. What a radical decision - will it be possible without being gripped by a life changing experience? For me today Jesus has to become that experience, that experience which grips me to a total transformation that I will fear nothing, for I know my Lord will raise me up on the last day, come what may!
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