Yesterday as Anna and I walked around the garden we were trying to tend with our limited gardening knowledge and experience, we were surprised to see a mango sapling which we planted about ten months back in blossom. We felt relieved that the mango sapling is there to stay and would bear fruit sometime!
We too are called to bear fruits! We need fellowship with one another to do that!
The church globally recollects today as the Palm Sunday. Children and adults would be in procession in many churches holding palms and singing songs of 'Hosanna' to Jesus who rode on a donkey to enter into Jerusalem only to be crucified a few days later!
This to me a good reminder of the different seasons in our lives! Although this is the spring season in non-tropical countries, for us in india it is the beginning of summer with its scorching heat with temperature rising to 42 degree celsius.
There are inner seasons in our lives. When we hear the terrible news, that the co-pilot who deliberately crashed the german airline aircraft in the Alps last week, leading to the death of all the passengers and the crew was obsessed with a grey season of depression in his life, we need to take a re-look at the impact of such seasons in our lives!
Jesus 'kept his face steadfastly to Jerusalem' and prepared himself to face the pain of of suffering. He did it by preparing His disciples and His followers to share in His personal agony. Although the hundreds who followed Him deserted Him after the palm Sunday celebration of the passover, there were some women and His disciples who stayed close to Him during His crisis hours. They endured and supported Jesus to the extent it was bearable for them.
This is the key to live soberly even amidst extreme provocations and intimidations including during a depressive mood! Stay in touch with who care and can carry us in their loving embrace. It is this the from social contact!
Even Jesus protected Himself by being in fellowship with those whom He loved and who cared for Him.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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