+ The gospel passage today is about authority. When
we meet someone with authority – real, genuine, unassuming authority – we are astonished because somehow that
person unseats our deepest fears, fills us with certainty, and realizes the
desires crucial to our happiness.
The
contrary is also true: when we observe someone with questionable authority –
surreal, counterfeit, assumed authority – we are alarmed because somehow that
person affirms our deepest fears, fills us with uncertainty, and threatens the
desires crucial to our happiness.
For example: we see Jesus
today as God Himself coming in our midst to exercise that primal and incontestable
authority that is so powerful that it can even expel our unclean spirits. The “new
teaching” of Jesus is our salvation.
Likewise,
the contestable, unstable, erratic sense of power looming in the gathering
administrative structuring of the “new government” in Washington, D.C., ought
to alarm the psyche of this great nation, and its sleeping, numb or simply
dazed citizens to defend the escalation of their deepest fears of disunity,
chaos, uncertainty and destruction of their pursuit of happiness at the core.
Unless those who are imbued
with the good sense, and truth, of the rightful authority of Jesus, and the right
use of it, stand up and say NO! to what is on the verge of destroying not only
our country, but also the unraveling of the very fabric of world civilization –
it will be soon too late – and those who were silent and did nothing will be
held most accountable on Judgment Day!
Jesus,
we collectively say and mean: we trust in You, we trust in your Light, we trust
in your Love, we trust in your Joy – HELP US TO STAND UP and cooperate in
saving ourselves from DECEIT, LIES and THE EVIL ONE!
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