Then everyone goes home. John 7:53 EFP
Everyone goes home. Why? Why don’t the authorities insist the guards go back and seize Jesus? Why do they not press their argument any further with Nicodemus? Why does Nicodemus not respond? Did level heads prevail? Were they all just too tired to fight any longer?
Are there some days when the better part of valor is simply to go home? Does every encounter have to be a battle? Sometimes I just want to go home. No victory. No defeat. A bit battered. Tired. I just need to go to a safe place to regroup. There is a lesson in there somewhere to the side of me who feels a sense of obligation to win all the time. Lord, give me the wisdom to know when to walk away. Let me choose carefully the hill on which I will die.
I am in a war. It’s not a sprint; it’s a marathon event. The victory goes to the one who endures—the one who survives.
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