(Please read the Scripture passage before reading the homily.)
This is how be a disciple or a servant of the Lord. The Lord is the one who opens conversation with us. The Lord rouses us and opens our ears.
Once the Lord has spoken, the disciple does not rebel as some of the Isaiah’s people had rebelled. Rather we listen, we move forward without fear. We have the Lord for our help. We know that the Lord upholds our right. We encounter hardship, but we know that our right is secondary to God’s right.
The disciple, then gives time and attention to the word of the Lord. The disciple lets the Lord’s word serve as the disciple’s guide.
These are the last few days before Easter. Easter means more than candy and spring clothes. Easter means a resurrection. If we have imitated Christ is this life, then we shall imitate Christ in the eternal light of heaven.
Come what may, the servant has to put complete trust in the word of the Lord. The servant meets apparent failure, but the servant remains faithful.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy can serve as an example of a faithful servant. He has set his face like flint in the face of overwhelming odds. While we do not know the outcome of his stewardship, we can apply his example to our lives here as we face our enemies, our faults, our challenges to being faithful disciples and servants of the Lord. Our time is short as Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s time also seems short.