Thursday’s Thoughts from Pastor David
It’s the last Thursday in the month of April!
The first Thursday of April was my wife’s birthday!
The last Thursday of April is my sister’s birthday!
Remember the disciple of Jesus named Thomas?
What adjective usually goes before his name?
That’s right – “Doubting”
Thursday’s Thoughts from Pastor David
Here we are, twelve days into the month of April and I am still basking in the afterglow of the glorious and redemptive act of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
From the cruel cross to the emancipated empty tomb, this is where we find the great juxtaposition of history.
One man’s (Jesus) willing pursuit and achievement to take on the sin of the world on the Cross –
our grief,
our loss,
our misconceptions,
our futile chasing after significance,
our dysfunction,
our abandonment of all things godly,
our internal struggle of shame,
and the list goes on and on (Believe me! My personal list goes on for another three or four pages… and that would be the Reader’s Digest version)
Thursday’s Thoughts from Pastor David
The first Thursday after Easter!
We go back a week to take a look at “The Cup” from which Jesus drank a week earlier (The Thursday before Easter!)
While in the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus prays – “And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.’” (Matthew 26: 39)
“The Cup” of which Jesus speaks are those life situations, skills, idiosyncrasies, circumstances, and calling which has been placed in our path of life with which we must confront, deal with, live with, embrace, and drink.
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