Daily Lesson for April 17, 2019

Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 12 verses

“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—‘Father, save me from this hour’?No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.”

Jesus lived fully into the hour that was at hand. He did not wrangle or evade or seek to escape the day at hand. When his moment came he lived into it — fully and completely and without fleeing. 

He came for the very moment that was given him. It was his time; and when he came he did not fail to live in and up to it. He did not ask God to spare him from the time that was at hand. 

We all have our times of crucible and crisis. This may be a difficult conversation at work, a hard time as a parent, an undesired but necessary move, a moment when someone must speak up and we know it’s us. 

These are moments from which we know we cannot ask God to deliver us. For the moment is ours. The time is at hand. And we trust always that God is also.