Daily Reading
Daily Reflection
The darkness of Good Friday reminds us of St. John of the Cross, a 16th century Spanish friar and reformer who penned his now well-known Dark Night of the Soul while in a cold, rat-infested prison. Amazingly, John wrote that though the dark nights of our lives are "miserable," they humble us, emptying us of "all natural affection and attachment," allowing us to "stretch forward to unrestricted liberty of spirit." In this passage, Jesus is talking to Peter, a young and overly confident young man who thought he was ready to take on the world. Read ahead through John 21, and you'll see that Peter had to be stripped of many things in order to be spiritually-formed for leadership. In fact, that's what "following" Jesus means. Good Friday invites us to see that our struggle is not a road-block to joy and peace, but very well may be the difficult wilderness road that takes us to the Promised Land.
Daily Worship Resources
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