Monday, 8 April 2019

SIXTH STATION: VERONICA WIPES JESUS’ FACE


Change, they say, is the only constant, but without the courage of changers, life would be a muddled smelly pond. Just do it, wherever you are positioned, labour to find your voice and change your position.

Often, there is a certain unwritten law, an unseen barrier, a real but hidden boundary, developed by the rule of conformity, which mutes people and keeps them a slave of the System. The System needs massive slavery to function and slavery is borne of lack of confidence and the inability to find one’s voice. Do not live others lives, struggle to find your destined purpose!

Can any good come out of the Good guy, I mean, those who would conform and live entirely according to the dictates of the System? If you are not truthfully tough, you’ll simply be used as a pawn in the hand of the powerful.

Look at what is happening around you. The unrighteous get bolder but the good guys panic to affect the status quo. let us not fear to live.

Courage is needed but it needs to be seasoned by Prudence, and what we find in excess is much each in isolation. Much courage without prudence, or much prudence without courage. A combination of these two is rare.

Rare is a prudent and courageous person, and that, Veronica was. She did not wrestle the cross of Christ from the soldiers, that would be suicidal, she focused and went boldly to wipe His face, and she was saved!

May your face shine upon us and we shall be saved (Ps 80:19) so says the Psalmist, and this happened to Veronica. Christ's face shone on her through the cloth she dared to to wipe His face with amidst such pandemonium and danger.

Don’t die before your time through a misguided courage, and avoid living without actually living through a false prudence. Follow the path shown by Veronica, a woman who was wise and dared.





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