"Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” - Matthew 20:22
The sons of Zebedee are ambitious. They've seen Jesus in action and know of the Jewish prophecies which foretell of a new Kingdom for Israel, but they've let their vision of earthly glory blind them to admonitions and warnings that Jesus has repeatedly given to the twelve: his kingdom is not of this world; the measure of glory in his new kingdom did not conform to the hierarchy of power of earthly kingdoms; and three times prior to this point in Matthew's Gospel he has told them that soon he himself is going to suffer a particularly gruesome death at the hands of his enemies. Yet James and John seem to be unaware of the price they themselves will soon have to pay as his followers.
How about us? Willingly or unwillingly, we receive the cup of earthly trials and tribulations. Can we willingly drink of the cup offered to us by Jesus, in order to embrace the glory of Jesus' eternal kingdom?
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