2023-04-04 A Meditation on Integrity to the Call

“And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.” (Jn 12:23–26 ESV)

In this alone a person of integrity: the Christian has bargained with life, and emerged stronger. The Christian has been mightily built up, but on the news of a surreal and unreal Victory: the love of God controls us, who Died for all that therefore we too have died (2 Co 5:14). The Christian accepts a Call and a sense of Consecration to the peril of all worldly thought. For, the Christian knows what it is to plead for someone—anyone—to listen. To have their entire faith-walk along a dynamo of real urgency, urgency that translates and influences how we pray, what is our confession, just who we are to friend and stranger on the busways and highways, the urban centers, the academic enclaves, the suburban civic meetups, the rural abodes of peace and fidelity towards the One.