Partners in Hope

We often give up on God before His plan for us, in His perfect timing, takes effect. Jesus’ death on Good Friday came before His resurrection on Easter Sunday. Things looked hopeless for Jesus’ followers during the time between those two events, but God was still in charge.

We may not know how to overcome all that is wrong, but today we can choose for a new way of living.

Few people are more aware of their need for God’s help to restore them to sanity than recovering addicts. What a relief it was to turn to God who was ready, willing, and able to receive and restore us.

How do we respond to the greatest act of love this planet has ever seen? One song writer tried with these words: “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life, my heart, my all.”

This is the day in the Christian calendar when we remember Jesus who is so one with us and yet so much better than all of us. At the Last Supper, Jesus should have been the focus of honour with His friends, but he’s the one who paid attention to them and who got up and humbly served them by washing their feet.

Here we are on Wednesday of the week where time seems to turn at a different pace than what is usual.  We have the Friday’s events of Jesus’ suffering and death in our thoughts and yet it seems like such an unbearably long time to have to endure the anticipation of what is to come.