 Meditation:
As a teenager I recall the media publicizing an agnostic belief system and graffiti that stated God is Dead.
No doubt these thoughts were reiterated in times of hopelessness, practices of injustice and yes, even in rebellion to religion.
One response our youth group made was to declare God is NOT dead on a bus banner as we traveled from Illinois to a Lutheran Youth Gathering in Dallas, TX.
Now some 40 years later we still hear the doubt and witness lack of hope in our world, and, if we are honest, sometimes in ourselves.
In this day of devotion and reflection we might be reminded that, like the psalmist states, there is no distinction between thought and action, to know something is to do it.
We can and do believe God is alive and that Christ calls us as faithful followers into a relationship so dear and intimate that it is likened to the marriage supper with the LAMB.
We are called to action even in the midst of overwhelming events that surrround us.
Our Lenten journey also asks us to rest, listen and practice “sabbath” so that we might combine thought and action for what God would have us do…today!
To know God is to act in hope, to speak in love and know that we raise our voice in rehearsal for Easter morning in declaring the living Christ! |
