This week: God as Holy Week. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . God as Holy Week makes the peaceable Reign of God visible even if it looks different from the powers that appear to control the world. This visibility is not appreciated by the powers of the world because it unveils a life that uses all the religious language that is so beloved and it gives that language a look and a feel and a living presence that does not go along with how the religious powers of the day want that language to be taken. God as Holy Week will speak of Temple as life - life that is holy - life that cannot be destroyed like Temples of stone and precious metals. God as Holy Week lets the precious nature of God's Reign shine even when that shine gets in the eyes of those who think they are the powerful folk who rule all things. When that happens, people sit up and take notice - people ask for clarification - people question in order to trip up the life God brings into Holy Week. God as Holy Week is a painful truthfulness. It is painful whenever we try to hold onto the lies that the powers of death have been selling us forever. And yet, as we let go of those lies we are given new insights and a new power that is shaped by a love that lets no one go. The power of death simply wants to take that love and make a fool of it by hanging it out to dry. That's why God as Holy Week is always throwing water over feet and over our dried out lives - to life! O God of love and new life, make us a part of the blessed character of your Reign of forgiveness and love. Amen. |
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