Even for Jesus it must have come as a surprise – the most unexpected person in the most unexpected place “getting it,” witnessing and surrendering to His promise. One by one they fled as brutal condemnation and torture circled their leader and threatened to implicate them.
But the “good thief,” who didn’t travel with the Galilean, who didn’t have his belly fed with the other 5000, who didn’t watch moms and dads, brothers and sisters seeing, hearing, speaking for the first time, and who didn’t smell the stench of death give way to life – believed in the crucified Christ
The “good thief” brought solace to Jesus: he rebuked the cynic and loved Jesus into Paradise. Had the “good thief” ignored Jesus, gave up on himself, or lived his final moments absorbed in misery – total despair would have triumphed. The lesson is simple: keep the conversation going with the Lord, trust in His confidence in you and know someone needs a hand up today.
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