We don’t come to church to learn how to live. We come to church to learn how to die.
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All of these voices swirl in our head, a cacophony of chaos, lies, and confusion. They whisper that we are unloved and unlovable.
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But to answer Jesus’s invitation to discipleship is to leave the safety of the boat altogether. It’s to step out in faith…without a safety net.
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God has a word for you. And that Word is Jesus. In Jesus Christ, God says to us in no uncertain terms that God is for us.
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Jesus gets down and dirty with the worst and weakest parts of ourselves, the parts that we don’t want to acknowledge and that we try to keep hidden.
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Jesus overthrows the old order…of might makes right, the order of an eye for an eye, the order of the first ensuring that the last would always remain that way.
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However you may be walking in darkness—whatever it is that shadows you—know that on this day the light of the world descended into the darkness.
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This is how God operates, breaking rules, flouting conventions, defying good sense and conventional wisdom in order to bring about something wonderful…
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When we were lost in the wilderness and could find no trace of God, God found us and cleared a path through the desert to get to us.
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So by all means be alert, keep awake, but not out of fear but rather anticipation, for the one who knocks is none other than Jesus Christ….
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But that’s just it: Jesus isn’t keeping score. Jesus doesn’t need our good works. Jesus wants us to trust him.
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Let me reassure you right now that God is not keeping score. God is not awarding points for good behavior or deducting points for being less than perfect.
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But God’s grace is the great leveler. If sin makes hypocrites of us all, God’s grace covers us all equally.
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A crucified Messiah. The very concept would have been any oxymoron. It still is. We like our Messiahs victorious and glorious.
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Caesar can stamp his likeness on all the coins he wants, Jesus suggests, but the true image of God is not stamped on a coin but hung from a cross.
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But God’s power is not all right. In contrast with the direct forcefulness of right-handed power, left-handed power is paradoxical power
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The righteousness of Jesus is his willingness to empty himself of all authority and take up the cross.
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The currency of the kingdom of heaven is not fairness but grace. And when it comes to grace, God is a big spender, perhaps even generous to a fault…
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But if the message we hear is “forgive or else,” then what we’ve done is turned the whole concept of forgiveness into just another law.
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And so what makes us Christian is not whether or not we wound one another—we do—but rather how we go about mending those wounds.
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