Sunday, July 19, 2015

DO YOU BELIEVE IN EASTER?


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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 the curtain to the Holy of Holies was torn in two.

        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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