"For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord Jesus" (1 Cor. 11:26). I marvel that we "proclaim" any one's death. Any death at all. Death is sad, to be lamented, shunned, avoided.
But we "proclaim" a death, the death of Christ. How? Why? Because in his death lies the power of God--the power of redemption, the power to restore God's people to God, the power of love and its triumph over sin and death.
When facing a loss or a sorrow, a "death" of any kind, I marvel at the chance to unite it to the Cross, in the hope that it too, would be something powerful, something redemptive. The genius of Christianity surely lies in this--the possibility of death itself being the path to new life.
No comments:
Post a Comment