Can I find my way into Easter morning without contemplating the life and passion of the Savior? It seems that I try. But I soon learn there are no shortcuts to the sunrise.
Jesus took no shortcuts to the empty tomb.My spirit is hungry to know wholeness. But first I must let God speak and tell me what is broken.
For Jesus took no shortcuts to the empty tomb.In quiet contemplation, God’s spirit begins to reveal the inner recesses of my soul:
My insecurity and fear of not being accepted,
My subtle anger and unreconciled relationships,
My need to achieve and my unrealistic expectations of myself and others,
My lack of inner solitude and my need for busyness.But Jesus says to me, “For those things I died.”
And Jesus took no shortcuts to the empty tomb.Slowly, I come to know that I find my way to Easter morning as I work my way through the maze of unforgiven sin within my own spirit. It hurts sometimes, that inward looking. But I can see Easter on the horizon.
And then I know, Jesus took no shortcuts to the empty tomb.By Lunn Brookshire
From Jubilee, Upper Room Books, 1996
Please join your church family on this Lenten journey:
*Ash Wednesday Service: today, 2/22 at 7:00 p.m.
*Book study Thursdays in March – Why? Making Sense of God’s Will
*Weekly worship following Christ from the wilderness to the resurrection
