In John 13, Judas and Jesus step onto two very different roads—one of survival, one of surrender. Judas followed instinct: rational, even noble-sounding at first glance. Jesus chose differently, not because he was immune to fear, but because he had practiced surrender in small ways for years. That training made obedience possible when everything was at stake.

Glory, Jesus says, comes when the hidden life within us breaks into the open—like a seed sprouting from the soil. Every choice we make plants something: seeds that grow into habits, habits that become character, character that decides which road we’ll walk when the hardest choices arrive.

Jesus gave his friends a compass: “Love one another.” Not a sentiment, but a strategy. Love is the road map for those who follow the way of surrender. The journey has no ETA, no finish line—only presence. Two roads still diverge before us. And the way we walk them becomes our life.

How do you fight this feeling? Like Jacob, Achilles, and Menelaus, do you wrestle with God? Or, like Jesus, do you duel with the devil for 40 days and nights in the wilderness? Or, like Mary and John, do you turn, head down, and head home, one step at a time, to finish Friday, then suffer through Saturday, one breath at a time, with no sight of Sunday in the forecast? Perhaps you do all of the above - or none of the above.