June 14, 2020

Jesus tells us that discipleship means involvement. He set the pace, and He expects His disciples to keep it. He identifies with the agonies of humankind. He became involved in their crying needs. He even went so far as to bear the consequences of their sins. 

To be a disciple of Jesus means that we who accept Him as our Savior must also accept Him as our Lord and Master. We are expected not simply to criticize the distortions of humanity from the pews and pulpits of our churches, but to become involved in the blood and tears, the sorrows and sufferings, of God’s creatures wherever they may be found.

Because we are involved in the sickness of our world, we must, as the disciples of Christ, become involved in its cure. Discipleship means involvement. As our Lord suffered on our behalf, we are expected to suffer on behalf of others, to lose our lives in service only to truly find life anew in the incomparable joy of being the children and servants of the living, loving, eternal God.

“As the Father has sent me, even so I send You.” John 20:21