Monday, March 29, 2004
Monday, March 29, 2004
Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me
has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.
(John 5.24
NRSV)
"Mom," she asked, interrupting her counting, "how many times did Jesus die?"
"One time, dear," her mother answered.
"Then why are there so many crosses?" the little girl asked.
"To help us remember how much Jesus loved us," her mother replied, "He died on a cross for us."
"Well," the child responded, "how could we forget something like THAT?"
How COULD we forget something like that? And yet we do, don't we?
Of course, it is not Jesus' suffering and death we celebrate, but the atonement, the at-one-ment, Christ has made possible for us with God by his suffering and death. Christ has broken down the wall between God and humanity. He has built a bridge--not just to the twenty-first century but to eternity.
Dear Jesus, thank you for connecting me to God's eternal love. Amen.
