In Thursday’s reading, Edward Hays challenges us to see that the disciples and in fact, even Jesus, aren’t that different from us – in facing many challenges, temptations and difficulties, yet even these aren’t reasons to avoid joining the battle against darkness. Yet, Hays says, Jesus did not call his disciples to go forth on crusades to battle distant evils. Rather he called them to face evil right in their midst. The first place to encounter darkness and evil – and the most dangerous place – is in your heart.
Now is the time for us to examine our hearts, to see what lies there and to challenge ourselves to small and large changes, so that we might be transformed. Hays calls us to consider in today’s reading, what reforms we might like to take. Pick one thing today that needs reform, change, transformation in your life. It can be small! Work on that change and be open to how that change brings deeper, unexpected results.
Have you ever made a positive change that resulted in much deeper and powerful transformation? Have you seen this kind of truth at work in our world?
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