The trillion
dollar event that culminated last night has very little to do with me. If there is that much money floating around I
wonder why there are still people sleeping on the streets and going hungry. What a waste…what a sin. But it has been going on for a very long time
in human history.
I Samuel 8 speaks
to the beginnings of this need to have someone other than God, their Creator
rule over them. “They have rejected me
from being king over them” (verse 7). It
is rooted deep in our human history to do our own thing and be our own
god. “For my people have committed two
evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out
cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jeremiah
2:13). Again and again and again we
continue the same pattern. At what point
do we stop and ask, “So, how’s that working for you?”
I continually feel
railroaded, run over by those who know it all and won’t stop and listen to another
point of view. Evil is a strong force,
uncontrolled like the winds of a hurricane it forces itself forward, destroying
all in its path. It was that force at
work that crucified Jesus, God in the flesh that dwelt among us. But Jesus rose from the dead, not in a great
display of force and unleashed power, but in a quiet, unseen way. God’s loving power erodes the strong force of
evil, like drops of water erodes rock.
The resurrection
of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords was not a trillion dollar event. Jesus revealed his power to Mary and his
disciples in tender and touching demonstrations of love.
God does not use
force to prove himself to us. Even when
Jesus was facing the force of evil head on at his arrest he said, “Put your
sword back into its place. For all who
take the sword perish by the sword. Do
you not think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me
more than twelve legions of angels” (Matthew 26: 52, 53)?
God comes to us in
the quiet places of our lives and reveals the power of his love to us; just as
he did to Mary, who mourned him, to his disciples who deserted him, and to
Peter who denied him. Jesus ended his
ministry as he began it. Using his
power, that is strong enough to overcome the force of evil, to change water
into wine, to change death into life, and to change flesh into Spirit.
This is the King I
will serve, the Leader I will follow, and the One I will love.
It is his Kingdom
I am loyal to and I will work to further while here on earth.
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