The Way of the Cross

Jesus almost never lives up to our expectations. That tells us more about our shortcomings than it does about his mission. Time and time again in the gospels, Jesus does things the disciples simply never saw coming. The story of the Good Samaritan is a story that makes a Samaritan the hero when just a few verses before, the disciples wanted to destroy a Samaritan village with fire from Heaven. Like the disciples, and like Elijah before them, we simply don’t/can’t understand all that God is doing. That’s true in our own lives, but it was revealed most clearly as Jesus made his way to the cross. It’s there that we learn to live our lives according to the way of the cross, a path we’d never choose for ourselves.