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| Image is of Saint Francis' knee, on the statue at the entrance of MSF |
God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.
For David says of him:
I saw the Lord ever before me,
with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted;
my flesh, too, will dwell in hope....
Are you kidding me? You thought you had dealt with Jesus, that you had disposed of him once and for, and could move on? And where did you think to go, since there was nothing left to hope for?
No. You must stop, turn back, and return to the Lord your God who sent Jesus to you as the emissary and apostle of truth. You could not dispose of the Son of your LORD so easily, but he can dispose of you without a moment's notice.
We're calling you back. God is calling you back. Take a look now at the empty tomb. And now return to Calvary, and to Pilate's chamber, and Herod's court, and to the Sanhedrin's assembly room. Go back to Gethsemane and the Cenacle, and hear his command,
"Do this in memory of me."
For unless you eat the flesh of the one who died for your sake, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. You cannot ignore what he means for us, nor what you did to him. We must all make an accounting of ourselves before him.
What must you do now? You want to know what God has assigned to you as your duty and responsibility for all eternity?
We shall praise his name; we shall exalt and delight in him. And you will join us, whether you are in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth.
We shall rejoice in his victory, and dance for delight over the end of sin and death. We shall give thanks to God for opening our eyes, cleansing our ears, sharpening our taste and smell, sensitizing our touch, and healing our hearts so that we might know what is the height and depth and width and majesty of his victory:
For this reason I kneel before the Father,from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love,may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depthand to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19)
