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 Jersalem 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. 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. Here we glimpse the mystery of God’s
incarnation. God became human not only
to act among us but also to be the recipient of our responses.
And that is the
mystery of Jesus’ love. Jesus in his
passion is the one who waits for our response.
Precisely in that waiting, the intensity of his love and God’s is
revealed to us.
--Henri Nouwen, Finding My Way Home
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