This week: God as moving toward life. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . God as moving toward life will be the whole story of next week - Holy Week. God-in-the-flesh takes the fullness of life right into the center of the places of power that often take life from people. God as moving toward life meets face to face with the powers that do not want eternal life to blossom and grow. Therefore, we come away with the conflicts in Jerusalem - we find death afraid of the kind of life that will settle into the places that death so eagerly tries to own and dominate. God as moving toward life will be a witness without hesitation - a witness in our skin - a witness that shows that everything death has tried to control becomes a cosmic joke. And yet, this movement toward life is one that does not ignore or hide from the utter darkness of the power of death that is after all of us. God as moving toward life hangs out on the cross - the symbol of death and death's domain and character - until death has its last say only to be met by life again. O God of love and new life, walk with us through all that death will throw in our path so that we, with all the beloved of God, will never shy away from life eternal. Amen. |
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