Gospel for Tuesday of the fifth week of Easter is taken from John 14:27 to the 31st verse. Jesus said to his disciples, peace, I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives. Do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.

You heard me tell you I am going away and I will come back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father. For the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. I will no longer speak much with you. For the ruler of the world is coming.

He has no power over me. But the world must know that I love the Father and that I do, just as the Father has commanded me. Jesus is preparing his disciples for his death and resurrection. They have no real understanding of what it is and what it will do for them. But he does make something clear, that it’s about a sense of well being, about a sense of peace, knowing that things are the way they need to be, but not necessarily the way we think they should be. Jesus makes it clear that the peace that he offers is not the same kind of peace that we in the world want the way we want it is no tension, no problems, everything working the way we think it should work.

When he’s saying, no, if you surrender to all that God has planned for you, you will find peace. Just as he says that my love for the Father has enabled me to do whatever he has commanded me. And that’s a reference to his death and resurrection. SA Satan the closing prayer. Father, give us the faith to trust in the way our life unfolds. You love us so intensely that you know what we need more than we know that.

And when you do not answer our prayers, give us the wisdom to seek the answer that is there. He is promised the answer. Help us to believe in that promise. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.