The seven days we remember this week were a long time in coming. Heaven didn’t seem to be in a hurry. Since the first hint and promise of a rescue, thousands of troubled years had passed. No one’s parents had survived. Everyone’s children were dying.
A brief moment of expectation was followed by 30 silent years as a child grew up. Then 3 years to slowly expose our hearts.
When the day finally came, we weren’t ready.
Jesus wasn’t what the leaders of his people were looking for. He wouldn’t do miracles on demand; treated people as if they were more important than the rules they had broken; honored outsiders, spent time with the wrong kind of people; insulted the moral protectors of society; and even left his own family with the impression that he was mentally ill and out of control.
Yet, by the time this week was over, he ended up showing that it makes far more sense to talk about who he is, and what he has done for every one of us, than to spend our time defending the moral and spiritual laws that make hypocrites out of anyone that tries to defend them at someone elses expense.
By the time this week was over, Jesus, at the cost of his own sacrifice, gave us reason to believe what he had been saying all along,
“Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:35–38 (NIV)
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