Posted on 04/18/2025 5:35:54 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The story of Jesus Christ's crucifixion is one of betrayal, brutality, despair, and pain. Yet we know even before His death that redemption was promised to be coming soon. We know that the story does not end at the cross. We know what many did not realize that Sundays comin.
Celebrating Easter means rejoicing in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and recognizing what each of those events can teach us about the character of God. Be reminded of this truth during Easter: God has worked, is working, and will work through all things, even now as we find ourselves awaiting his return.
Qe need to learn to wa5ch for the ways that God is working in the world around us and join him there if it is his will that we do so. Ask God to help us see where he is at work and if there is a way we can personally be involved. Make us alert and sensitive to his work. Seems that business of life gets in the way of seeing things like this unfortunately.
(Seems that business of life gets in the way of seeing things like this unfortunately.)
Mark 4:19
21st Century King James Version
19 but the cares of this world,
and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the lusts of other things entering in,
choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%204%3A19&version=KJ21
Well true, but even everyday co cerns such as survival, taking care of family, etc tend to get our minds off of the work God is doing too- not hard to lose sight of things when bills are due and money is tight, and prob,ems pile up etc. Not easy trusted God at all times that’s for sure. We should of course- but the evil one knows how to distract expertly
I first heard Tony Campolo’s stirring rendition of this “It’s Friday—Sunday’s Coming” sermon forty years ago.
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