This morning in church we went through multiple passages in Matthew, following Jesus' teachings to the disciples about glory to come, heaven, etc. ... always followed by His reminder that His suffering and death was to come. The disciples JUST DIDN'T GET IT. They thought the path to glory was power and authority, sitting beside Jesus on the throne, watching Him physically overcome the world right then. Jesus repeatedly told them that the path to glory was suffering and death. He kept giving them the pieces to the Kingdom puzzle, but God's kingdom is upside down and inside out from the world's idea of glory. They STILL didn't get it ... all the way to the end. Even after He was crucified, they didn't get it - it seemed that all had unraveled. Everything they expected had come tumbling down.
Until the resurrection - that glorious resurrection - when all the pieces of the puzzle He had handed them fell neatly into place and they finally understood. They saw the picture. THEY GOT IT! Do you get it? Do I get it? Do we really, really understand that God's economy is one of serving, giving, suffering, offering ... not the taking, striving, working our plan A, B, C, D etc., that the world tells us is the right side up way?
If I choose to buy into His "upside down" world it will cost. Me for sure, and perhaps those I love. But in the light of eternity, upside down and inside out look pretty right side up come Easter morning! May all of my days start with a resurrection morning!
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You preach it sister and I'll turn the pages. I couldn't agree with that any better than you just discribed! Praise the Lord, we can wake up every morning knowing that we will be reurrected and be with God for eternity, not because of anything we have done, but soley by the work that Jesus finished on the cross to pay for our sins. HE HAS RISEN!!!!
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