Passion is a
kind of waiting--waiting for what other people are going to do.
Jesus
went to Jerusalem to announce the good news to the people of that city.
And Jesus knew that he was going to put a choice before them: Will you
be my disciple, or will you be my executioner? There is no middle ground
here. Jesus went to Jerusalem to put people in a situation where they
had to say yes or no.
That is the great drama of Jesus' passion: he
had to wait for their response. What would they do? Betray him or follow
him?
In a way, his agony is not simply the agony of approaching death. It is also the agony of being out of control and of having to wait.
In a way, his agony is not simply the agony of approaching death. It is also the agony of being out of control and of having to wait.
It is the
agony of a God who depends on us to decide how to live out the divine
presence among us. It is the agony of the God who, in a very mysterious
way, allows us to decide how God will be God.
This is a glimpse of the
mystery of God's incarnation. God became human not only to act among us
but also to be the recipient of our responses.
God is our refuge and our strength . . . Psalm 46:1
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