Save yourself and us.” The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
When we are undergoing persecution or suffering, we are faced with a choice. We can either be like the first criminal or the second one. We can either question God, demanding that He prove Himself to us before we’ll believe in Him or we can respect God’s Will and ask Him to remember us. All of us will have times in our lives when we will have to bear our crosses and be crucified in one regard or another. Some of us will suffer in our minds, others in our spirits, and still more in our bodies. However, no matter what we suffer, we should put our trust in God and hope that at the end of the dark nights of our souls there will be a glorious dawn.
In what ways are we tempted to question and doubt God’s Will? How can we become more trusting of God’s Divine Plan, even in the midst of our sufferings? How can we transform our sufferings into stepping stones to Paradise?
O Lord, remember us and bear us into your kingdom at the ends of our lives.
Amen.
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