We will not have Sunday School this Sunday. I will miss being in class with all of you and pray for a safe and happy Easter to you all.
Three quick things for this weekend:
The night before He was betrayed He washed the disciples' feet. Peter declared, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus said, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me."
He will not serve us against our will. You also have no part in Him if you don't allow Him to wash you clean.
Second - Do we dare look upon the Cross as it was and is? John Donne in 1613 on Good Friday wrote about looking upon the Cross:
"Yet dare I almost be glad I do not see
That spectacle, of too much weight for me.
Who sees God's face, that is self life, must die,
What a death were it then to see God die?
It made his own lieutenant nature, shrink,
It made his footstool crack, and the sun wink.
Could I behold those hands which span the poles,
And tune all spheres at once, pierced with those holes?
Could I behold that endless height which is
Zenith to us, and our Antipodes,
Humbled below us? Or that blood which is
The seat of all our souls, if not His,
Make dirt of dust, or that flesh which was worn
By God, for his apparel, ragged and torn?
If on these things I durst not look, durst I
Upon his miserable mother cast my eye,
Who was God's partner here, and furnished thus
Half of that sacrifice that ransomed us?"
Third - Do we want to know ourselves in Christ? Do we want to come into the light and be seen? The Psalmist writes:
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up,
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Easter is a glorious day for those in the light, willing to see Ephesians 4:25 as welcome to their soul. For the rest, Easter is hiding in the shadows, not wanting to be seen or found.
When will you want Christ to see you? Do you want to be found?
John 10:10
Have a great week.
Andy
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