This week: God as empty tomb. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com].
God as empty tomb is the a comment on space and time. The space is no longer filled
with the stench and rot of death that can turn our heads away. Death is not able
to show itself as a conqueror anymore. At the same time - since no body was found
and put back into that tomb - death has no leg or life to it. That's right. Death
has no life to it. Yes, that means death cannot be involved in the life that comes
when our God hands us life as a gift. Death and all of its power - we are told -
must stand by and watch life blossom. God as empty tomb is about life that is able
to entertain a fullness that death previously attempted to cut short or completely
dismantle. God as empty tomb picks us up - even though we are as good as dead some
days - and begins to open wide the gates of life that awaits us. We live by a vision
of what this life will be like in our space and our time. It is the vision of God's
unfolding Reign that fills all of space and time with a hopefulness that will not
be shut up.
O God of love and new life, send us running around the tombs of death that attempt
to subdue us and then send us out of the tombs living under the banner of a grand
Alleluia. Amen.
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