Embarrassed to ask him!

Luke 9:43-45

While they continued to stand around exclaiming over all the things he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples, 44 "Treasure and ponder each of these next words: The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into human hands." 45 They didn't get what he was saying. It was like he was speaking a foreign language and they couldn't make heads or tails of it. But they were embarrassed to ask him what he meant.

Food for thought!

At a time when everyone was full of admiration for all he did, at the very moment when he was at his best, praised and admired by many, Jesus told the people that he was on the way to die. Jesus teaches us here that we do well to remember death, especially when things are going well, very well with us. When life is ok, when all we do seem to go well, we should remind ourselves that all has end.

We usually think of death when we are in some danger like illness, or trouble, or mess. Then, in such moments it is easy to think of death. Not so when we are ok.

Like the disciples we choose, at our peril, not to think of the possibility of death. The disciples didn't get what Jesus was saying about his death. Normally, when we don't understand something, we ask. With death, we don't ask because we don't want to know. The less we know the better. So we think. That is why we don't prepare for death; we don't get ready for it; that is why death surprises us always. We are like the disciples, who didn't know what Jesus was talking and didn't want to talk about it; they didn't know and they were afraid to ask him about what he had just said.

Today, let's think of and talk about our death. It is OUR death, anyway!