“Hear me, …listen….You are my servant,…through whom I show
my glory….I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach
to the ends of the earth , “ we read in today’s first reading, Isaiah 49:
1-6. In the Gospel of today, John 13: 21-33,
36-38, after Judas, in the darkness of the night, leaves to betray Him, Jesus says: “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.
If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will
glorify him at once….” Through the
Cross, you and I, the redeemed of Christ, are glorified in Christ Jesus here and now and
will be for all eternity. We are more than His servants, the Lord tells us in Isaiah, and are called to more than raising others up
and restoring each other and ourselves to
right relationships with the Lord. We are “a light to the nations," a light in the
darkness of our world. It is when it is
most dark that the light shines most brightly for all to see. In those dark moments, it may seem as though “the
light” has gone out, as it seemed so in that upper room and on Calvary. Calvary, however, is our
brightest moment, the moment of salvation for all those who put their faith in
Christ Jesus. In whom do I put my faith, especially in those situations that shakes it?
Open my eyes, Lord, to You during the Calvary moments of my
life, in life’s darkest moments when all
around me and within me seems like night.
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