Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Devotion - Wednesday, March 23

I got home this morning from a trip to Minneapolis.  The purpose of the trip was to discuss with other campus pastors how we do our work and where God is calling us.  We spoke of the changes in information technology and how this impacts you, the students.  We spoke of the growing globalization and the inability to speak of Jesus without also addressing how Jesus talk interacts with talk of Muhammad or Yahweh.

As we were winding down our work, we head the first of the news reports from Brussels.  All but two of us at the meetings knew we would be spending the evening/night at airports.  And we knew airport security personnel would be nervous.

This is also Holy Week.  We should not forget this.  And we should also remember that Jesus dies at the hands of an angry mob, that he takes on himself the violence of a world too self-absorbed to consider the other.

And I wonder - will the world ever be ready to hear what Jesus has to say?

It isn't just those with suicide vests to perpetuate the cycle of violence.  Every angry word and every condemnation of another is an expression of the same short-sightedness.

Whatever Easter means to us this year - I pray it will mean an increased rejection of hate and hate language.  We cannot blame others, we can only change ourselves.  And we must change the way we speak of others.

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