GREETINGS TO THE LIGHT SHINING PEOPLE OF CHRIST THE KING,
The images of our lessons in Lent come to life as we trust the Holy Spirit to teach us in these nights of worship giving our attention to what God is doing.
Nicodemus comes at night and Jesus gives him lessons just beyond his reach, encouraging him to see more. On these holy evenings we are encouraged to see more. To see more in our serving. To see more in calling Jesus Lord and watching him die on a cross. To see more as we gaze upon the cross as a portal to more. To see more as we look into the empty tomb again. To see more as we hear the familiar stories and claim them anew and again as they claim new meaning in our lives today.
Jesus invites us into God’s holiness by asking us for something to drink and we give what we can as we trust the Holy Spirit to work with what we offer like the Samaritan woman at the well did and her whole village welcomed Jesus. We have our feet or hands washed and anointed to give ourselves to the servanthood that Jesus commands because in our offerings we can see and experience more.
Jesus spits and healing mud is created and a blind man can see and the faith community is thrown into confusion as they try to make sense of this new seeing man in their community. This is what Jesus does. He steps into the mess of our lives and creates a new mess for us to make sense of and come to terms with in community. I wonder what God is up to with us at Christ the King?
Now Jesus not only calls Lazarus out of death but enters the tomb the same way we all enter the tomb. He enters our death to show us there is more than death. When we look upon the death of our loved ones, we trust that there is more than death. There is life, resurrected life with Jesus and we are eternal beings. Let that sink in.
And we tell these ancient stories of creation and redemption, and we see how God faithfully reaches out to us and are fed at Jesus’ table and we see more and our lives are shaped into sometime more. Give your attention and your time to these Holy Days. This one week out of the year. Let these Holy Days shape you again and anew. God is up to something with us now as God has been throughout the ages. Align yourselves with God, the creator of the universe. God has something to show us that shapes us for our lives together now and we can see more.
Christ is risen and now with Christ, nothing is impossible! Christ has restored the possible. God saves us. Jesus bears witness to God’s salvation and the Holy Spirit helps us to see anew and again and more. Look into the empty tomb and look for the risen Christ in our community now.
Bold Inquisitive Belief Loving Expansively,
Pastor Connie Spitzack
