The Glory of it All

This week, we celebrate the most important events in the history of our Christian faith. Unfortunately, like many other things in our walk with the Lord, this week becomes simply a recognition of days. We become busy with extra church services and clouded by the distractions of bunnies and eggs, of big meals and visiting family. Although our minds may know the reason for our gatherings and celebrations, our hearts have lost the wonder, the awe and the gratitude behind our celebrations.

"Oh, the glory of it all is He came here for the rescue of us all that we may live; oh the glory of it all! Oh, He is here with redemption from the fall that we may live for the glory of it all!"

However you may celebrate the events of Holy Week, I urge you to consider Him. Ponder who this Jesus is that gave of Himself, submitting to the Father's will. Wonder in amazed gratitude why He would go to such radical measures.

And rejoice in the glory of it all.

"For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of the cross . . . and although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach . . ." - Colossians 1:13-23 (emphasis added)