Coming or going! Giving or receiving! Left or right! Up or down! Peace or war! Comfort or pain! All these are contrasts familiar to most of humanity. Once a year we set aside a weekend…this weekend… to consider the greatest contrast in creation … Life and death. In our human minds “life and death” would be the correct order because we are alive and heading toward death. Humans consider life our default condition and death its nemesis. BUT… from God’s prospective it is “death or life” because men are born dead to God and in need of spiritual resurrection life.
Evil is on the march in our world. It is intense and it is shaking its fist in the face of The One True God. But…The veil is pull back for you. God is waiting for you to repent and come into the family of God and find rest. Yes…we are living in troubling times! Yes…there is spiritual darkness everywhere we look! And Yes…we are like clay pots compared to the perfect porcelain vessel of our Lord Jesus Christ, But…. You can come to Him. He will receive you! His light can and will shine into your dark heart and illuminate this dark evil world.
The date is Sunday March 29th, 33 AD. Jesus has just arrived in Bethany, a small village outside of Jerusalem. This is the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. He is on His way to Passover. It will be his last one. Hearing that Jesus was in town and eating with a man who was certifiably dead and raised again to life .... a local crowd began to gather to see Lazarus who had been four days in the tomb and decay had already begun. Everyone wanted a look at such an extraordinary man. This event took place on Sunday. On the next day Monday March 30th 33 AD. Jesus left Bethany and began the short descent to the City of Jerusalem. He was on His way to enter the city, as commanded, to celebrate the Passover.