This week: God as crucifixion. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com].
God as crucifixion is - in a way - God at rest. Nothing else needs to be said or
done. It is God fully for us - for all of humanity. The only thing left - I suppose
- it the victory lap in the tomb before it is empty. God as crucifixion is the face
of how life will go on its way after the resurrection. The life to come to all of
us is one that is free to get put up on that cross with the God who claims us and
promises life in and through all things. God as crucifixion is the God who stands
with us and considers 'now what?' Now that the world rejects the way of love that
is to be ours and was the way of Jesus, what will take place among us as we continue
to live the way of the cross but now in the realm of resurrection where the power
of death cannot rule us? This is another one of those points that my weakness and
fear creep up on me. I know this is not a 'way' I can go on my own. I need 'encouraging'
folks - people who will either say 'go for it' or will say 'let us go for it.' That
is the church.
O God of love and new life, be the lead as you have always been so that we will
go for it all - all the love - all the mercy - all the peace - all the Reigning
glory. Amen.
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