For us; a call for deep reflection,
quiet contemplation and personal and collective adaptation within the church community that we are all a part.
Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until his wrath has passed by.
To be honest, it is a much more fundamental issue for us as Christ's followers, than the immediate challenges presented by Covid-19.
With the time of Lent nearly over, on the eve of Palm Sunday, is an ever more pressing need for us as willing servants of Christ, to reconnect proactively yet sensitively with The Holy Spirit; to awaken the slumber of our quiescent hearts, to still and simply 'be there' for our beloved Lord and Saviour and for each other and our communities as He directs.
Christ's journey becomes our journey and engraves a mark on our hearts; of forbearance, (ref. Latin verb patior, passes sum), as the stages of His Passion are enacted through to the ultimate sacrifice on the Cross and resurrection.
Christ's entry into Jerusalem on a donkey as the symbol of eternal peace, amidst the troubled dichotomous landscape, resonates with our current world situation, as we slip into an abyss imperiled by waves of necrotic uncertainty, which continues to keep hermetic mindsets away from essential underlying truths.
As we stand there amongst that crowd in Jerusalem, bearing the gravity befitting that experience; our heads hang weary with sorrow, yet the nature of our very beings are becoming transformed by the ineffable love we have come to know and transcending anything else we may ever know.
Standing here today, hearing, seeing and feeling the beauty all around us of God's creation, perceiving the voice of stillness; almost imperceptible as in a wind's breath, yet unmistakably clear; reaffirming one's daily purpose.
We have the opportunity to reopen our spiritual eyes and rekindle the desire to live out who we are in accordance with what we believe, our days becoming beacons of light, and our footsteps sound and directional, to the fulfilling of Christs promises in each of our lives.
What a wonderful fellowship ... and such richness, singing praises to His wonderful name.
The song in Isaiah chapter 26:20 is one of salvation. The people renew their trust in the Lord as a response.
Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until his wrath has passed by.
What seems to be essential to us, is that our saviour Jesus Christ can be trusted over ALL else. We have nothing to fear.
Jesus Christ is the rock eternal on whom we place ALL of our cares.
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.
Is 26:4 (NIV).
Adrienne and Brett
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