A whole bunch of stuff, one thing after another as my mother
used to say. It’s happening with world events but add to that what may also be
happening in our personal lives, and all this piling on can be enough to leave us gasping for
air.
But could it be that in the middle of that big pile may be something that bears the promise of new life?
Reminds me of the
time that stone got rolled over the tomb—just
a pile of rocks and the one we’d counted on was dead.
The days tick off and we come up with our plans B, C, D, and
Z because plan A is buried so deep, we’ll never see it again.
Or so it seems.
But plan A is about to electrify that dark hole with the blaze of life and fill the empty tomb with an echoing, “He is risen. He is risen.”
And if God can do that, then when we look at our big piles, we
have to ask ourselves what would be impossible?
Didn’t God ask this same question of Abraham way back in
Genesis? “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14).
Two thousand years later, Jesus said this as if in answer, “What
is impossible with man is possible with God.” (Luke 18:27).
Those big piles in our lives want to convince us there’s no
hope for things to change, but as we look toward Easter, we keep our eyes fixed
on the One that has the power to change everything.
So, we stay close to Jesus and continue to believe God for the
promise of new life in all those big piles.
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