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It isn't Easter but the core of our faith is the resurrected Lord that links with the eternal throne of grace and since it is a message timeless I wanted to write about it here and now in this month of July
On Sunday they laid palm fronds at
His feet. On Friday they killed
Him. On Sunday He rose from the
dead. It was a busy week.
The execution came courtesy of the
state. The resurrection courtesy of the
courts of heaven.
“Truly, this was the Son of god.”
Cried out a group of centurions when the crucifixion ended. Across town, deep inside the veiled halls of
the Temple
Something important was happening. But then it had been happening for a long,
long time. He was only twelve years old
when he “wowed them in the temple. The
Bible uses the term confounded them. I
think “Wow!” is much more appropriate.
After that He did take a three decade hiatus but when he next
burst upon the scene, He did so with gusto. When
John the Baptist baptized others it was just a baptism. When He baptized Jesus the event got heavenly
acclaim. “This is my Son in whom
I am well pleased.”
And who was there to hear it? You and me, well really our ancestors in the
great family of man. It has
always been this way. Sometimes shouting
hallelujahs at baptism time, and thanksgiving prayers when miracles happened
and cheering Jesus presence with palm fronds and then changing their minds and
cursing Him at Golgotha or fading back into
the woodwork for safeties sake.
When Palm Sunday
came Jesus came into His annual glory time.
Just like 2000 years ago. And it lasted
through Easter. And then 365 days less a
week passed before its palm frond time again.
We do that, don’t we, wander in and out of the life of Christ. In and out.
In and out. Too often out. Too seldom in. And it is such a shame. For there is such a timeless benefit to
having Christ around 52 weeks out of the year.
Who is this Jesus we believe in
and forget so easily? John’s
gospel tells us He was sent because God loved the world. Then Jesus says He is going to die to save we
people in this world. It’s not really
that complicated.
It’s a one/two theological punch of truth that only a fool or an idiot
can fail to understand.
Did you have breakfast before you this morning? Why?
The answer is obvious. You were
hungry. But funny thing is, if you
missed breakfast, lunch and dinner, and did the same thing tomorrow and the
next day and the day after that, after not that many days you wouldn’t be
hungry anymore.
Which is how it with faith
feeding. If you don’t sit down one day
you wake up and find you no longer have a real spiritual hunger. You may remember how once it was on some long
ago yesterday, but that’s what it is…a long ago yesterday.
Whatever brought you here this
morning, one of the reasons is that cars and clothes and a nice home and good
food and all the other etceteras are nice but you can never get away from the
nagging question “Is this all there is to life?”
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