Christ Church Rockville Lenten Devotion
Jer. 15:10-21
Phil. 3:15-21
John 12:20-26
Lord, Come and Change My Thinking
There are a lot of things to be changed in the world
That is also the same in my mind
The key word of today’s Gospel is dying or death.
Jesus told his disciples that the hour of glorified has come.
It means that the time of death of Jesus has come
Many people think that dying is nothing, emptiness, vanish and fear
But Jesus said to his disciples that dying is the hour of glorification
In this parable of ‘a grain of wheat falls into the earth,’
Jesus told that dying is the place where bears much fruit
This expression is very surprising saying
Death is not a place where there is nothing or there is no move of life
In the beginning, the earth was a formless and void (Gene.1:1)
It looks like no move as if the world of dying or death
But the Bible says that the very formless and void place the Spirit of God was moving.
Dying is not a void place or fruitless desert
The Spirit of God moves in all creature’s dying place
Dying is the place where we blessed with our fruitful life, glorification and eternal life.
Through Jesus teaching, I changed my thinking on dying
To me, dying is not a dreadful or an emptiness place no more
Every time I hope and pray a lot of my secular thinking changed by Jesus teaching
