ONE OF GOD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES

“In the place where he was crucified

There was a garden.”

John 19:41

The juxtaposition of a beautiful garden and a place of utmost horror is difficult to imagine.  Yet they both are places where death occurs. Can anything good come from death?  Yes…life comes from death.  It is one of God’s greatest mysteries.

In the garden every plant that grows started with the death and burial of a seed.  On the hill of crucifixion every soul that now lives free started with the death and burial of Jesus.  The power of resurrection overcomes the powerlessness of death.  It is one of God’s greatest mysteries.

I try so hard to be good, to be true to my calling, to be a disciple of Jesus, to walk in his ways; but I continually fall short of my desire.  Someday I will learn the lesson of the seed and the cross.  Only death of the life I work hard at leads to the life he hopes for me.  I can not do it; he can and will.

It is one of God’s greatest mysteries.

Jesus could do nothing on the cross; but the power within him overcome the sin within me and made me free.  Jesus could do nothing buried in the grave; but the resurrection power within him made me alive in his Spirit.  It is one of God’s greatest mysteries.

“In the place where he was crucified

There was a garden.”