During this Holy Week, we meet up with Jesus, the Messianic King, depicted as the Suffering Servant of God, in the different passages from Isaiah. Today, He is presented to us as the One with the disciple's tongue, the One with the disciple's ear, and the One with the disciple's heart. As the One with the disciple's tongue, He knows how to reply to the 'wearied' to sustain them, because it is God Who provides Him with the words - He lives so closely with God. As the One with the disciple's ear, He is awakened by God each morning 'to listen like a disciple' - His listening is unimpeded because He is obedient. As the One with the disciple's heart, He sets His face 'like flint' to willingly do God's Will - even if it meant shameful, physical abuse.

No where in the Isaiah passage do we hear the Suffering Servant of God lamenting in His bitterness because of all the abuse He has to go through. He rests His case with God. He knows Who His Vindicator is. He knows He will be vindicated.

During this Lent, we are once again 'invited' by God to wholehearted, costly obedience in our everyday life as the disciples of Jesus Christ. Do we have what it takes - to speak with a disciple's tongue; to listen with a disciple's ear; and to undergo suffering with a disciple's heart?