Thought For The Week 1 April 2018

One of my favourite things about Easter is sharing the Easter story with the kids in my Bible in Schools class.  They are fascinated with the whole thing.  The drama, the mystery, the miracle, the faith.

On one level, the Biblical account of the resurrection is full of holes.  Nobody was there and actually saw it happen.  The evidence is circumstantial.  Sometimes we get worried by that, or even sceptical.  We want to fill in the gaps, plaster over the cracks and make the whole thing possible to explain in terms that we all understand.

As I encounter the wonder in the hearts and minds of those kids, I am reminded that when we get bogged down in trying to explain miracles, we lose sight of the wonder and majesty, the mystery of God.

Because the good news is not that we understand what God did on that Easter day, the good news is that what God has done, and is doing in this Easter day transcends the mundane calculus of this world and transforms our lives from the inside out.

We live in the miracle and mystery of God as we proclaim with the great cloud of witnesses:  “Christ is Risen, He is Risen indeed!”

Blessings

Rory