+ Well, it seems as though the readings for this first day of Lent
get right to the point: the point being that now, more than any
other time in human history, everything is on the line: the finish line is a
speck of light on the horizon, but it is real and it is there! The time has
come historically, and spiritually to “empty our stuff into the latrine or get
off the pot” – to make a decision that will determine our eternal placement!
The first reading tells us
very simply, that God himself places before us death and life, sorrow and joy, chaos and peace, despair and hope –
and because he respects our free will he does not make the choice for good,
beauty, truth, and justice and all the above mentioned choices for us – but he
does try to sway us that way – THE CHOICE is entirely ours: but our choice at
the moment of our death will be firm and irrevocable.
So he gives us a lifetime of
many Christmases, Lents, Easters and Vineyard Working Time… to seek out and
find HIM, to follow a rightly formed conscience, so that when our life is
waning, we will CHOOSE LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS that can only be found in the
Kingdom prepared for us.
Mankind’s “wisdom” “knowledge”
“science” can only go so far: man cannot save himself for eternal life of
bliss, on his own, it will just never happen: but a simple act of belief in the
Person (God/Man) whose savage and horrific Passion Death and Resurrection saves
our sorry butts, will connect us to the Paradise Train: there is no other way
in, none!
So for us, the gospel tells us
its time to study the Death / Resurrection Dynamic which is what Lent is for:
and to believe that what happened to Christ must happen to us, a difficult
Passion and Death process, but also a glorious resurrection experience one day,
when our disembodied souls will be reunited with our bodies and we will cross
into a new heavens and a new earth and live in the Heart and Face of God the
Father forever.
Who want’s to live forever, is
the name of a pop song, but also is a direct question for each of us: if you
do, then follow Jesus’ playbook, take up your cross daily and follow him!
Blessed are they who HOPE in
the Lord!
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