This week: God as empty tomb. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com].
Now, just because I'm at the resurrection doesn't mean that this run about God is
over. I always like to say this is how we begin. This is place when the image of
death - a tomb - a burial place - brings to mind to all of us the power of death
and its inevitable hold on us. No one gets by without facing dust again. And yet,
God as empty tomb - though it acknowledges that place of cold stone death - is the
power of God that removes the power and threat of death. This is where we celebrate
life - the life that God hands us and life that no other power can take from us.
God as empty tomb is a simple visual reminder that takes hold of our hearts and
brings us to a resting beat. Yes, death is cold and overwhelming - we all know
that in one shape or another. But we have been given eyes to see the limit of death's
power and how our God takes us beyond all the power that will try to stop the Reign
of God from coming alive among us.
O God of love and new life, continue to lift us up to see beyond the powers of the
day so that new life will enter in even when we are not ready for its arrival.
Amen.
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