Thirty Third Day of Lent - Stress

 

Folie Urbaine, by Sophie Petetin, Artsper.com

“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.  I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.  And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way. Luke 14

Stress is a modern concept, but the word comes from stricklus - or draw/tighten, in Latin.  So many times in the bible narrative the saviour is pushed close to a cliff edge.  The final time is when he is nailed through the body onto a board and murdered.  Finally evil triumphs.  But not for long.  Mercifully we can see the story from the vantage point of 'Anno Domini', (the year of our Lord).

PRAYER:  We are so privileged to know your story.   We know how it ends.