Friday 16th AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”
(Matthew 6,27 ESV)
Lent is a time when we ask about the meaning of repentance. Lent could be a time not when we think about all the sin and suffering and self-denial that have been traditional with us, but when we ask in fresh ways what the people clustered around Jesus make of the world they are in. I put the question this way: Jesus affirmed that it is possible to be in the world in a new way, to be present to the people and problems around us with some newness and freshness.1
The question that Jesus is asking is an invitation to explore what it is to live a life united with Christ. It is remarkable that Jesus knew the condition of the heart and its state when we are feeling anxious. The invitation is to allow Jesus to rule all the affairs of our lives and with the real possibility of living differently in this world.
Let us examine our hearts as Jesus asks this question to us.
DL
- Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own, Accordance electronic ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017), 6. ↩︎
D.L. 
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