Sisters and Brothers:
Evidently I’m so humble that I forgot to be humble yesterday.
So today I have a lot to be humble about. Funny how that works.
In one of the ironies of history, today is the day many Christians celebrate the Transfiguration of the Lord. AND it is the day we bombed Hiroshima.
Whatever our verdict (or God’s) on bombing Hiroshima, who can deny that humanity is in a sorry state when wreaking such dreadful destruction and death can be entertained as the right thing to do. How dreadful the problem which leads us to consider so dreadful a solution!
When Jesus came down the mountain, he set his face toward Jerusalem, there to be scorned, tortured, and crucified.
How dreadful the problem which led God to so dreadful a solution!
How wonderful the love which embraced that solution to save the lost!
How, one might say, gratuitous the generosity in God’s revealing to a few the glory that was and is the crucified One’s by right and by conquest!
Amen.
THANK YOU LORD JESUS,
FOR YOUR AWESOME LOVE . . . THE ONE WORTHY USE OF THE WORD
AWESOME.