He is in Control when Things Seem Most out of Control | Dreaming Beneath the Spires
Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time
Matthew 20
17 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem.
On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them,
18 “We are going up to Jerusalem,
and the Son of Man will be delivered over
to the chief priests and the teachers of the law.
They will condemn him to death 19
and will hand him over to the Gentiles
to be mocked
and flogged
and crucified.
On the third day he will be raised to life!”
A nuclear emergency in the life of Jesus.
He will be betrayed, unjustly accused and condemned,
mocked, brutalized and tortured to death.
He goes into this calmly, surrendering control,
because he know who is in control beyond the chaos.
The still point of the turning world.
beyond shifting shadows.
He knows on the third day, he will be raised to life.
His Father, the lighthouse on the rock, steady and immovable
When everything else seems most crazy and out of control
Is actually in charge.
