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Man on wireFriday, April 15, 2011
John 10:39-42 Jesus on a wire. Not much between him and the cross. Stepping out, stepping back, speaking up, withdrawing ... many are coming to believe in him, and others are hoping to get his head on a platter. Watch Jesus at work. Every morning he gets up early and goes away to pray. When he returns it is to the company of men and women who have known him for three years and love him. They adore Jesus. He touches them, speaks to them, gives them confidence to go out and perform God's miracles on their own, and he feeds them his food and gives them his living water. Just a touch, and many begin to believe. Just a word, and they want more. These people are poor, don't always have enough to eat. The more they need Jesus, the more they know him. That's his plan. That's just the way it is. Why would someone for whom the system is working just fine ... need Jesus? The power in Jesus reaches out to others; it does not protect him. He escapes from "their power" only to give more and more and more, until it is finished. On our calendar, there is a week left till death comes for Jesus. Watch him work. O Father, what can I learn from you, what can I learn watching Jesus? That's not the point, I realize even as I ask. Jesus IS truth, Jesus IS life, Jesus might be a teacher, but what I learn doesn't come out in words. I just do what I see him do. Like he did. Does. Keep on keeping on with the watching. Don't look around, just look at you, Jesus. |
It was 1974, one year after the World Trade Center's twin towers became the highest skyscrapers in the world. A daring young French wild man named Philippe Petit wanted to walk between them on a tightrope. He did the deed on August 7. Until he appeared outside the windows on a wire, silhouette against the sky, he kept it all to himself. Secrets. No one knew except a trusted few. Because what he wanted to do was completely illegal.