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The power of resurrection is its ability to produce unparalleled joy. Imagine that instead of your worst fears, your greatest blessings came pouring down. The stories of the resurrected Jesus are studies in amazement. "What just happened?" "How could this be?" "Is this real?" The psalmist writes of a people weary of waiting. Their words are more groaned than spoken: "O that we might see some good!" Inherent in that statement is a firm conviction that nothing good can happen, at least not to us. The "blessings of God" in that economy are for others who are wiser, more faithful, more committed than we are. There is a pervasive sense of doom or resignation in the people that assumes an angry creator who withholds blessing in order to correct them.
In life, Jesus did constant battle with the nay-saying, harshly binary Pharisees. In the resurrection, he turned their limited thinking upside down and proved to those willing to see it, that nothing is impossible; in fact, nothing is even improbable for those who would pursue an awareness of new life. Francis of Assisi (as translated by Daniel Ladinsky) tells us that "joy is the greatest cleanser, and it is the greatest testimony to our faith." Join us Sunday as we enjoy our joy. Let's celebrate the prospects of new life all around us, but mostly within us. And let us revel in the disappearance of an angry God.
Peace,
David
The power of resurrection is its ability to produce unparalleled joy. Imagine that instead of your worst fears, your greatest blessings came pouring down. The stories of the resurrected Jesus are studies in amazement. "What just happened?" "How could this be?" "Is this real?" The psalmist writes of a people weary of waiting. Their words are more groaned than spoken: "O that we might see some good!" Inherent in that statement is a firm conviction that nothing good can happen, at least not to us. The "blessings of God" in that economy are for others who are wiser, more faithful, more committed than we are. There is a pervasive sense of doom or resignation in the people that assumes an angry creator who withholds blessing in order to correct them.
In life, Jesus did constant battle with the nay-saying, harshly binary Pharisees. In the resurrection, he turned their limited thinking upside down and proved to those willing to see it, that nothing is impossible; in fact, nothing is even improbable for those who would pursue an awareness of new life. Francis of Assisi (as translated by Daniel Ladinsky) tells us that "joy is the greatest cleanser, and it is the greatest testimony to our faith." Join us Sunday as we enjoy our joy. Let's celebrate the prospects of new life all around us, but mostly within us. And let us revel in the disappearance of an angry God.
Peace,
David
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