OPEN DOORS AND NEW BEGINNINGS

Are you still sleeping?” Jesus asked the Disciples in Gethsemane. And what is behind the question? Is there something here more than a physical awakening? Is there an implication that, like Nero, we sometimes fiddle while modern America burns? Is it at Gethsemane we realize how easy it is to be spiritual sleepyheads? Transient in our moral natures? Lazy and lackadaisical?

The terrible slaughter of ageless dreams; so often has it taken place during the history of mankind. Not so much because of bad men who accomplished too much evil, but because of good men who accomplished too little good.

A new creature in Christ - it always comes back to that. For as the old saying goes, “I am but one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, therefore, by the grace of God, I will do.” (anonymous)

Have you ever said to someone, “You’ve made your bed, now lie in it”? But that’s not what the gospel says. The gospel does not speak of slug-a-beds. The gospel speaks of open doors and new beginnings. Of sunrises, not sunsets. Of journeys that begin in a little Nazareth town and finish at the gates of heaven.