(Meditation for Lent 3B)
God
comes to us in many amazing and unexpected ways and to those of us most would
think are less than stellar choices. The
poor, the weak, the broken, the sinful, the fragile. God redeems even those that seem
unredeemable.
The
most unbelievable of the ways God comes to us is in the incarnation. How astounding is it that God came to us as a
baby in a smelly manger? Became a worker
of wood? Became one that continues to
touch us and heal us? Came to die for
us? That continues to come to us in
unexpected and “foolish” ways?
This is the God whose law continues to teach us how to love God
and our neighbor with the words given on a holy mountain. The God who becomes angry at the cheapening
of the temple. The God that seems to
make no sense. The God who continues to
do the unexpected, the unanticipated, the unexplainable, and the foolish. The
God who continues to call us, each of us to follow this upside down journey to
the cross. The God who says repeatedly
to believe in those things that seem to make no sense…to lose our lives to save
them, to serve in order to lead, to give away to gain…the God that calls us out
of our comfort zones to follow.
This is the God many find foolish. Are we willing to appear foolish for God’s sake? Foolish enough to share the Good News of God
in Christ?
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