This Sunday, I’ll be preaching on Luke 23:33-43, focusing on “the penitent thief.” While preparing my sermon, I came across the following quote and wanted to share it with you.
“His tragedy is that his introduction to paradise came so late.…And his glory is that he found him in time.…His tragedy and his glory are not unlike yours and mine. And Good Friday is the opportunity to redeem tragedy into glory. For what is our tragedy but our failure to grasp what Christ can do for our lives here and now? And what is our glory but to discover with him how to live in heaven even while we live on earth?” — Howard G. Hageman [1]
[1] Howard G. Hageman, quoted in Justo L. González, Luke (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 264.