The Passion: Looking Forward

The Passion Week.

Everyone knows the story. Mel Gibson had a multi-million dollar film about it. So what's left to say? Nothing, except that Jesus ROSE AGAIN!!! So often we focus on the severity of His torture and the way He was pushed by angry politicians and religious leaders unjustly onto the cross, but we miss the fact that He did it for us. He didn't want to. All that time praying in the garden, sweating blood and begging God for mercy. That tells us that He was scared, and rightly so! He was human, after all, but He was also God and knew the course that He must take. His sacrifice was guaranteed from the moment Adam sinned. That's why He's called the second Adam. The first condemned us all to death, the second reversed that mistake and gave us an avenue straight to the heart of God, but He also gave us something else: The Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself said that the Holy Spirit was greater than He. Jesus also said that we will do greater things than even He did, because of the Holy Spirit and our faith. So, this week, don't just focus on Jesus' death, and don't just focus on His resurrection, instead, remember that He died for our sins so that we don't have to be slaves to our impulses anymore. We aren't bound by our fleshly desires. We have one who lives in us that is holy and mighty and available to us all the time.

So I encourage you this week to respect the sacrifice Jesus made and use the spiritual freedom that we all now enjoy through the Holy Spirit!

God bless you all,

Ken and Melanie