Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, our Father, and Jesus Christ. Welcome to my blog! I hope the thoughts you find here will encourage you and inspire you to diligently seek God’s Kingdom. Today, I would like to encourage you from this text that I shared for Resurrection Sunday.
Luke 24:5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
This Resurrection Sunday, I preached from this text, and thank God, God truly met us at IHP. I thought it might be a good idea to re-emphasize a key point or two. The context of this pericope is that two women went to the grave to anoint Jesus’s dead body. This was a common tradition for people to go to the gravesite and bring herbs with which they would treat the body of their dead to delay as long as possible the inevitable process of decay. In so doing, it is and still is normal for these ladies to come to the grave site to engage in this activity. If we today felt the need to visit our loved one who has died, it is entirely reasonable to come to the grave site of our loved one. So, we should view their coming to the grave site as entirely normal except for the fact that Jesus is unique in that he had spoken a word concerning his situation.
When God has spoken a word over our situation, normalcy no longer applies. We need to stop looking for the living among the dead. We need to stop expecting the miracle among the deadness of normalcy. We are so used to death that for us, there is nothing strange about deadness in our lives. So much so that we expect deadness, and when we do not experience it, we turn away from the miracle to comfort ourselves with the death we are used to. Many look for relationships at the gravesite because we cannot envision ourselves in the presence of a miraculous relationship. If we find someone who wants to get married, we would think them strange because we are used to the deadness of the “baby-daddy” paradigm. If you met someone willing to respect you, you would think of them as weak and find the “bad-boy” to commit you to a life of grief. We talk ourselves into the benefit of the dead-end job because the miracle of being a business owner is too much to imagine.
Seek the living where the living are. Look for the miraculous and expect that as your new normal. Expect God’s best. Except perfect and without blemish, the way God gives. Expect the miracle to happen, just as God said it would. Don’t seek the living among the dead. Seek the miracle in God’s Word.
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Remember to invite someone to church with you this Sunday. I would like to extend a special invitation to join us at In His Presence Family Worship Center, this Sunday. We meet at 2418 Church Avenue in Brooklyn NY. We meet at the Goshen Seventh Day Adventist Church. Join us at 10 AM. I look forward to seeing you there. Seek God’s Kingdom first.
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon, D.Min., M.Div.,
In His Presence Family Worship Center
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