{"id":5541,"date":"2017-09-20T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/roadsfromemmaus\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2017-09-20T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:35:27","slug":"course-im-not-ashamed-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/2017\/09\/20\/course-im-not-ashamed-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course I’m Not Ashamed of Jesus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunday after the Elevation of the Cross, September 17, 2017
\nGalatians 2:16-20; Mark 8:34-9:1
\nVery Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick<\/i><\/p>\n

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.<\/p>\n

O<\/span>ne of the things I have noticed as a pastor is that a lot of our spiritual struggles these days revolve around the question of how we feel. For example, I have heard many times someone say to me, \u201cI\u2019m not going to do anything to hurt him, but I just can\u2019t forgive him.\u201d Or I\u2019ve also heard, \u201cI feel bored or distracted when I say my prayers or when I\u2019m in church.\u201d<\/p>\n

We live in a time when our feelings constitute existential crises. In other words, how we feel is not just important but critically important. Feelings are the authenticator of what we do. If we don\u2019t feel it, it\u2019s not really real. And if we do feel it, that\u2019s how we know it\u2019s real.<\/p>\n

We talk this way outside of ostensibly spiritual questions, too: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I really love her\u201d or \u201cI think I still have feelings for him.\u201d And when we say these things, we mean that, if we can determine the answers to these questions of how we feel, then we have to act in a certain way.<\/p>\n

And so we spend time examining our feelings, at least on certain subjects, usually questions of desire. \u201cDo I really want<\/i> this or that?\u201d And if we do really want it, then we have to get it. And if we don\u2019t really want it, we should not go after it or not do it.<\/p>\n

But ironically, we also live in a time of unexamined feelings. I might ask whether<\/i> I really want something or really feel something, but most of the time, I don\u2019t ask why<\/i> I feel what I\u2019m feeling. To learn why I\u2019m feeling something, I will have to ask big questions about my family life growing up, what I\u2019m most afraid of and why, whether I had a bad experience with someone that sent me running in the opposite direction, etc. Most of us never do this work. We just feel what we feel, and that\u2019s the end of it. And we decide what we feel, and we go for it.<\/p>\n

So that was the context that came to my mind when I read these words from the Lord Jesus in today\u2019s Gospel:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed, when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels\u201d (Mark 8:38).<\/p>\n

So when I read that, I thought about how it comes across to us now. Jesus says that if we are ashamed of Him and His words, then He will be ashamed of us when He comes in glory with His angels. We don\u2019t want Jesus to be ashamed of us. So we had better not be ashamed of Him.<\/p>\n

No problem, right? I don\u2019t feel ashamed of Jesus. If someone asks me, I\u2019m okay with saying I\u2019m a Christian. I might even say I\u2019d be willing to die if necessary. If Jesus comes around, I wouldn\u2019t feel bad about that. I would feel fine! He\u2019s nothing to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m pretty sure that when Jesus shows up again with His angels in all His glory, He\u2019s not going to lay His eyes on me and then facepalm before all creation, like He\u2019s just ashamed of me and feels so bad to be associated with me. \u2018Cause I\u2019m good with Him. I am unashamed of Jesus.<\/p>\n

So within the context of how we understand feelings in our time and how they are the true authenticators of what is real, and given that the key to not having Jesus be ashamed of me at the Second Coming is not to be ashamed of Him, then isn\u2019t this passage really not very important at all? I mean, who among us is actually ashamed<\/i> of Jesus? Why even put that in the Bible? Who\u2019s He talking to?<\/p>\n

Or perhaps it means that the risk of damnation at the end of time is really not that great? All you have to do to make sure that Jesus isn\u2019t going to give you that divine facepalm is to make sure you have pretty good feelings about Him. \u201cJesus, we\u2019re good, right? I am not ashamed of You. No embarrassment here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, though, that I do not think that this is about feelings. For one thing, it doesn\u2019t make much sense for us to describe Jesus as being embarrassed of us: The Lord of all creation, coming in the glory of His Father and accompanied by His holy angels, seeing one of us, and inwardly feeling like He just wants to run away? Really?<\/p>\n

So what does it mean to be \u201cashamed\u201d? There are feelings that accompany shame, to be sure. But what we see in the Scripture regarding shame and being ashamed is not really about feelings. It is about actions. To be ashamed of Jesus Christ is not about how we feel about Him. It is about how we act toward Him.<\/p>\n

This is why, when interpreting this passage, St. Theophylact of Ohrid says that \u201cintellectual faith does not suffice, but confession of faith with one\u2019s mouth is required as well. Since man himself is two-fold, let his sanctification be two-fold as well. For the soul is sanctified by faith, but the body is sanctified by confessing.\u201d It is about action!<\/p>\n

And what actions show that we are not ashamed? As Theophylact says, one way is that we must confess with our mouths. We cannot be private Christians. Christianity is not a private religion. It is a public one. It is a public proclamation. It has always been public. It is good news to the nations, to the whole world. Thus, if we are not ashamed of Jesus, then we speak His name to our families and our friends, confessing Him before them with love and boldness.<\/p>\n

But it is other actions, as well. It is also worship. In commenting on this same passage, St. Cyprian of Carthage asks, \u201cBut how can we shed our blood for Christ, who blush to drink the blood of Christ?\u201d (Epistle LXII<\/i>). In other words, how can we claim to have such strong feelings for Christ that we would be ready to be martyred, and yet we will not engage in this most central act of the Christian faith\u2014to receive the holy Eucharist? How can people say they would be willing to die for Jesus who are not willing to come to church and eat and drink the body and blood of Jesus?<\/p>\n

If we stay away from His holy table, we are showing that we are indeed ashamed of Jesus Christ. You cannot be a \u201cgood Christian,\u201d a Christian who is not ashamed of our Lord Jesus, and yet not actually show up when He calls us to His house. I don\u2019t care if you don\u2019t feel<\/i> ashamed of Jesus when you stay home and do not worship with the Body of Christ. By staying away from worship you are indeed ashamed of Him<\/i>. <\/p>\n

In Hebrews 10:23, Paul tells us to \u201chold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,\u201d and then in 10:25, he says that we must not forsake \u201cthe assembling of ourselves together.\u201d You cannot hold fast to the confession without coming to the assembly.<\/p>\n

There are so many more things we could mention here: If we do not give to the Lord out of our abundance, we are ashamed of Him. If we do not meet Him regularly in private prayer, we are ashamed of Him. If we do not seek out spiritual counsel for guidance in our lives, we are ashamed of Him. And so on.<\/p>\n

To be ashamed is to turn away. It is not about how you feel. It is about what you do. Feelings are slippery and change a lot. We can never really be sure of them. But what we do is observable. We can see it clearly. We know if we are turning away from Jesus by what we do.<\/p>\n

And so in the end, if we are ashamed of Jesus Christ\u2014that is, if we have turned away from Him in all these ways\u2014then He will also be ashamed of us. He will not feel embarrassed to be around us. He will turn away. So, then, let us not<\/i> be ashamed. Let us turn toward Him. And let us do it with actions.<\/p>\n

To the Christ Who is coming again in glory with His angels, with His eternal Father and the Holy Spirit, be all glory, honor and worship, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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