Your Turn

Wednesday: It's better to suffer for doing good, if that's what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That's what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others' sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all--was put to death and then made alive--to bring us to God. Then he appeared in the upper room with the disciples hiding behind locked doors and told them, “as the Father has sent me, now I send you.” It is your turn to go out into the world and do good even if you have to suffer for it. If you feel bad about not having gotten around to that yet, remember that a week later Jesus returned to show Thomas his hands and the disciples were still there.