Today’s Reading: Psalms 25
As we celebrated Easter yesterday, I can’t help but to think about what the disciples were thinking and experiencing.
On Thursday, they were having a Passover feast with their teacher and Rabbi and then they saw him arrested and heard that he was crucified. They thought this was the End of everything.
John and Peter saw Christ brutally, beaten and crushed, and then executed through the crucifixion. They experienced the End of everything. Their hearts were broken.
On Sunday morning, both Peter and John go to the tomb and witness that he had risen. They were questioning themselves was that the End or was this the Beginning of something amazing.
A couple days ago, as we were preparing for Good Friday, my daughters were engaged in questions and wanted to know the reason behind Good Friday and the naming of it. They’re asking why is Good Friday called “Good”? I informed her that it was good that Christ completed his mission of life to reconcile us back to God, and allow us to have the ability to speak to God directly. The sacrifice of Christ allowed us to reconnect with God through the Holy Spirit.
The next question was “ if Good Friday was the end of Christ where was the beginning? Does God have a daddy? “ These profound questions from my 11-year-old and nine-year-old allow me to look at the complexity of God and Christ.
We see the beginning of our relationship with God through the death of Christ. We also see and witness the all of God and the creation of all things. So is it just the beginning or is this the end? Or is this the end or is it the beginning of our relationships? It seems that we are on a continuum where each day ends and the new day begins.
In the psalms 25, we are also at a continuum where we are visiting with David in the latter days of his life. David is questioning his future at the same time, he is asking forgiveness for his past.
Show me Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
On You I wait all the day.
Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses,
For they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;
According to Your mercy remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.
Psalms 25: 4-7
We are constantly asking for insight into what to do next, but at the same time we are stuck in the past.
God through Christ has shown us that he is independent of time and that he loves us despite all of our difficult circumstances. God sees us in the completeness of who we are. Throughout our circumstances, we can grow in HIm more. It is when we have the struggles in our past, that allows us to lean into Christ through the Holy Spirit. So through our living, we are continuously engaged with him.
Is this the end or the beginning? The answer is yes. We are constantly becoming renewed daily with our relationship with God the Father through Christ, God the Son, and the beauty of God the Spirit. May we enjoy this Easter season with renewed how that all of our past transgressions have been forgotten and live with more intention to be a reflection of God’s Love.