Something happened.
It was something clearly unexpected. It was a totally new thought.
No one would have written the script this way, No one could have even thought this possible.
What happened that day was amazing. What happened that day changed a handful of lives. What happened opened eyes and opened hearts. What happened that day changed the course of history - one person at a time.
History began again. The world began its restart. Newness was made new again. Life with God now and eternally became possible again. People were reborn.
There is no theory to explain it. There are no bright ideas to rewrite it. There is no argument to disprove it.
Something happened that day which, for almost two millennia, has impacted people and made them want to be a part of what happened then and today.
Something happened.
It was resurrection. It was Jesus in a familiar but totally new body three days after he was dead.
Bloody. Broken. Lifeless. Sealed up in a tomb. Dead.
What could have happened? What could turn a simple bunch of dejected, discouraged, and disheartened disciples into world changers?
Creation was restored. God's people were reclaimed. Lives were renewed.
Something happened.
Redemption happened.
New life happened.
Resurrection happened.
Amazing how the actions of God made man changed everything, forever, in just one day.
What a great reminder to each of us to take a risk, take that step forward, just walk across the room. For in so doing, God may use US to change the world in ways we could never imagine.
Jesus experienced all things; so he must have known the same anxiety just before taking that first step that we feel; that same anxiety that stops many of us from acting at all.
I pray that the next time I balk at stepping forward on the path God has set me that I will remember THAT.
Great post.
Posted by: kabsav | September 07, 2008 at 05:22 PM