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“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen!”
~ the angels to the women at the empty tomb, Luke 24:5b-6a (ESV)
This year our Lenten and Easter Gospel readings are drawn from Luke’s account of our Lord’s preaching and His Passion. Each Sunday, Luke takes us to a different place. However, our focus is not on those physical places but rather gazing in wonder on the spiritual work that our Lord Jesus Christ does in those places – in the lives of people during His Passion and in our lives today.
At times, Jesus challenges us with His Word of truth. We also encounter His truth in Jesus’ parables that we hear at our Buffalo-North Circuit Lenten Services on Wednesday evenings.
We encounter His truth in King David’s psalms of repentance at Midweek Lenten Devotions at Wednesday noontimes, where our Lord shares with us His strength in our times of weakness.
But always, when Jesus enters a place (and confronts a person), He never leaves the place — or the person — as He found them. The most troubling places in our lives become the most amazing places of God’s grace when Jesus visits them.
I pray that, as we approach Easter together, we may enter the places of His Passion, hear His preaching, and discover our Lord . . . waiting for us . . . willing to share with us a love that was set in place before the foundations of the world. And we will find Him on Easter, risen so that we too may be found among the living.
~Pastor Nickel
