Dear friends, today I would like to share with you a reflection on the crown of thorns that Jesus accepted. "and after this, the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head.." (John 19.2) Jesus has here accepted a crown of thorns. I must confess that still there is in me a tendency to like it very much when the world praises me and acknowledges me to be of some significance. But in what sharp contrast this is to Jesus Christ! Jesus accepts a crown of thorns very silently when His hour of silent suffering comes. In our lives too there appears the hour of silent suffering, that of being asked to accept a crown of thorns. A crown is a sign of royalty, but a crown of thorns is a terrible mockery, a mockery of the fact that Jesus testified to the truth of His kingship before Pilate. Yet when the truth is mocked, Jesus is silent. What great power silence requires on some occasions. Do we have the strength to suffer in silence for the truth - the real truth about being citizens of another world - which is the reason of our hope? And yet, "no one who does not carry "his cross and follow in my footsteps" can be my disciple" are the Lord's words to us. Do we follow the current of this world or the footsteps of Jesus Christ who testifies to the truth in gentleness and meekness and then in silence accepts the consequences that will follow?
Gazing at the Lord Jesus Dear friends, Greetings! Today is the Feast of the Visitation. Today I would like to share with you on "Gazing on the Lord." Gazing is different from glancing. Gazing is a steady and more intent look, while a glance is a hurried look. In the Bible we read quite a lot about gazing. Gazing has to do with not only our eyes, but more importantly, our mind, and even our spirit. What happens when we gaze? We look at something intently, and so allow a reflection and more importantly, an impression of the same object to be formed upon our minds. If we gaze upon good things, that has its effects, if we gaze upon bad things, that has its effects too. Our minds are indeed, are constantly "looking at" or considering or "seeing" something. Just think of the human eye - can the eye be without sight? It is constanly looking at or seeing something. The Lord tells us, "The lamp of the body is the eye." (Luke 11:34) The eye fills our...
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