This is one of the most challenging of Jesus’s words to his apprentices on his way of crucified love.

It is challenging because Jesus is insisting that his disciples take themselves seriously. Not literally, but really, really seriously. And he’s inviting you to take yourself seriously, too.

 

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To realize that what you say matters

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To realize that what you do can have consequences greater even than what you might imagine.

Our lives matter. Our words matter. As followers of the Way, we have unrealized power either to bless and build up, or to become a stumbling block, an impediment to others causing them to lose hope, faith, and trust in the goodness and reality God. It is then that we need to hear Jesus say to us: “It would be better for you…”  

 

Sometimes we need the “shock therapy” of Jesus to awaken us to the Great Inversion of God’s dream for humanity, which he revealed as The Kingdom of God. Our words and actions truly matter. 

 

With you on The Journey, 

 

Rob+