With all that is going on in our world: war, terrorism, mass-shootings, climate change issues, homelessness, starvation, and way too many “isms” (racism, sexism, etc.) causing way too much pain and suffering in body, mind, and spirit for all; with all that is going on in our lives: being bullied, illnesses and deaths, worrying about the daily-growing inflation and high cost of living and worrying about how we’re going to afford… everything; the world is living in the despair of Holy Saturday.
Last night was Good Friday.
Throughout His life, and especially as He hung on the Cross, Jesus, personally,
experienced, all the pain and suffer - we will ever go through - even, and
especially, death!
Even though, at times, and most likely more than we will ever admit to, we all live in the despair, helplessness, and hopelessness of Holy Saturday.
The answer to all of ours, and the world’s Holy Saturday despair, is just, One Day Away, Easter! Tomorrow, we will shout, “Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!” When God raised Him from the horror of Good Friday, of life, Jesus completely defeated Holy Saturday’s despair by defeating the power sin and death had over the world.
At Jesus Cross, we saw the fullness of God’s Love for the world as God watched and allowed God’s only begotten Son, be murdered by the sin of the world. At the Empty Tomb, we see the fullness of the vindication of God’s Love for world.
Tomorrow, as we shout, “Christ
is Risen! He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!” May we pray for, and ask God, to
let those words take flesh in us. May we learn to love as Jesus loved. As
we do, yes, sorry, there will still be despair in our world, in our lives.
However, as we live Jesus’ love, God also promises, we will have more Easter joy,
hope, love, and peace.
What could our lives, our world, look like, with less Holy Saturday despair, and more, Easter joy, hope, peace, and love? Tomorrow, as we shout, “Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!”, let’s let those words “take flesh in us” and begin to live Jesus’, God’s Love for all; and as we proudly profess at St. John’s, “All means all!”
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