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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