Expect the Unexpected - with the Spirit
Thursday after Ascension Sunday
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; John 17:20-26
Jesus prays that we be one in the Spirit, that we become one people under one Lord, by the action of the Spirit. The Spirit unites, binds, builds! But we see in the first reading, the Spirit inspiring the Apostle to say something that divides the Sadducees and the Pharisees...just like the division that happened at the tower of Babel. Here the Spirit seems to divide, but dividing the evil and making it powerless before the good. After all the risks, dangers and resultant suffering when Paul straightens up, the Spirit tells him: it is not over, you have yet to bear similar things at Rome. The Spirit always surprises us...when we are ready to be surprised, when we expect the unexpected and carry out exactly what the Spirit wants us to, we will surely be powerful witnesses to all the world.
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