WARNING - Work in Progress

WARNING - Work in Progress
WARNING - Work in Progress

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Eyes on Brussels - 03/23/2016



WARNING PREACHY…

It’s Holy Week, the time of the Christian calendar when we remember the week leading Jesus to the Cross.  As we Christians recognize the Cross that our savior bore I find it helpful to recognize the atrocities against Him.

60Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” 61But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.  (Mark 14:60-61)

We call the day our Lord was executed on the Cross ‘Good Friday’.  We should be struck by the irony that we find goodness in the violent execution of an innocent.  Certainly, the original disciples of Jesus did not call it “Good” – at first.

But as people say, hind-site is always 20-20.

As we journey to the Cross with Jesus this week it is helpful that we should look at the senselessness, the tragic, and the painful while holding firm to the faith that where death exists life will arise.  It is in these terrible times when our faith is stretched to the point of very real death, but only at this point can we see the glorious healing of resurrection.

Let not this world's events during this Holy Week distract us from the reality that our faith is firm in the resurrected life of Jesus whom we celebrate this Sunday.

May we all know the goodness of the Cross.

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