What's Up

So Christ has risen, it's the Wednesday after EASTER Sunday and our crosses have all been put away - presumably to collect another year's full of dust and cobwebs. Where strength and faith are increased are in the moments between the realization that Jesus was crucified on Friday for my sins and the glorious victory celebrated the Risen Savior on Sunday.

It's so much easier (and fashionable) to quietly put my cross away, just as I do with every other holiday trinket each season. The lights and the trees must come down after Christmas, the costumes must go back into the closet after Halloween, the thanksgiving decorations must be put away for another year, and so on, and so it goes for my cross after Easter. It's barely three days gone and all I have to show for my celebration of Easter is a few uneaten jellybeans, some egg shells and a new suit that'll never see daylight from within my closet...unless somebody dies before I gain too much weight.

I should wear my cross out, man. I should have splinters so bad people think I'M a carpenter! I should be having to order a new CROSS every Easter instead of a new Easter shirt! But the truth is... I've had this cross for many years and honestly, it doesn't look to be wearing out any time soon. Until I come to the place where I can squarely address myself honestly, I'll stunt the growth of my faith by continuing to fool myself into believing that I'm making sufficient strides. And in so doing, I'll not only grow, I'll lay the seeds of bitterness and death through this false perspective.

Hebrews says that God has set before us a race. We can only run it and endure it by keeping our eyes on Jesus. He ran His race with a purpose, a conviction...and He ran it with a Cross. My Cross. Your Cross. Humanities Cross. I want to have a deeper understanding of God - of my Savior - of my own purpose and destiny. I don't think I'll put my cross away...just yet. He has Risen, you know. And because He rose, I could then rise, too, in order to be set free. Now, I'll pick this thing back up and be about the difficult task of trying to stay that way. And that's today's blog about nothing... Peace -

SAG