Luke 13: 1-5 -- SH
Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Thousands
of believers wished they could have asked Jesus that perennial knotty
question, "why do bad things happen to'good' people?" The conversation
quoted above is the closest Scripture comes to that conversation (along
with John 9: 1-5), and -- surprise, surprise -- Jesus dodges the
question. He simply asserts that personal tragedy is not a consequence
of personal sin, and then declares that everyone is called to repent.
Right
there he expresses two profound LENTEN truths: we are mortals, unable
to comprehend the deepest questions of life. But there's something far
more important than comprehension: a daily living into repentance.
That's at the heart of walking with Jesus to the cross.
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