Isaiah 49:1-6 / John 13:21-33, 36-38
It can be said that the influence and success of a person are expressed as his life comes to an end.
Because all that a person strived for, laboured for, fought for, sacrificed for, will be a testimony for that person at the end of his days.
And even if he has passed on, then there can be a legacy that he leaves behind.
In the gospel, Jesus was at supper with His disciples.
But He was troubled in spirit and He declared that one of His disciples, one of them who was at the table, will betray Him.
Jesus came to proclaim the Good News of salvation and to bear witness to the love of God in person.
But as He prepares for the final chapter of His mission, it seems that nothing is going for Him.
He faced rejection and persecution from His own people.
And now He faced betrayal and also desertion from His own disciples.
It was like how the prophet Isaiah said in the 1st reading: I have toiled in vain, I have exhausted myself for nothing.
But even in the darkness of the situation, Jesus said: Now has the Son of Man been glorified, and in him God has been glorified.
So even if we think that we are a failure, and that we have worked hard and yet there is nothing to show, let us put our lives in the hands of Jesus.
Let us learn from Him to do what God wants of us and to glorify God always.
When we do that, then God will bless us and happy are we when we just want to be servants of God.