Now that the dust has
settled, now that the Christ has risen and the world draws back into the life
it has carved out for itself. Let’s reflect back on what has just happened. For
the events that have just been completed, tortured, died, descended, risen, ascended,
these are the events that evolve Christianity distinctly from Judaism.
The torture and death was
a deliberate act of cruelty of man against man. The result of a power struggle
where on one side it was the power of man over man and on the other side it was
the power of God with man. Yes you read that correctly, God with man, not God
over man.
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The other three,
(descended, risen, ascended) are Christ putting his full and complete trust
into the hands of his Father. “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”.
(Luke 23; 46b) Our Christ didn’t descend into hell, rise from the grave or
ascend into heaven by his own power. He knew it was by his Father’s hand he would
be manifested as the Son of God and returned home to sit at his side. Full and Complete trust in his Father.
And yet we, humanity,
continue on our path, OUR PATH! Not the one God asks of us, but instead the one
that we, in all our narcissism, carve out for ourselves. It may be true we know
what we want better than anyone. But do we really know what we need better than
anyone, or anything?
And so we continue
fighting, killing, raping, aborting, and dividing each other in new and
horrible ways. We look to our governments to solve the issues of the poor
instead of looking at ourselves to simply help as we can. As we can
individually and through our churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, and
congregations of all types.
The dust has settled. God
has again, reached out to us. Our relationship with our God is, as is, our
relationship with each other. How’s your relationship?
Scripture is from the
NABRE
by David E. Gonzales