A Morning Like This on Monday

Morning Like This Was it an extraordinary morning when Jesus Rose? It was a morning that changed everything. It was the culmination of the most incredible week in human history. A week before He enter the City triumphant. On Thursday He established an everlasting memorial. On Friday, He suffered and died. On Sunday, He arose, death and the grave conquered.

But it was all for Monday. It was all for the rest of time. It was all for his chosen so that they might live extraordinary lives guided no long by Fear but by Faith. And is that the way it is?

I was in the Family Book Store yesterday and noticed that Fearless is the number one Christian Living bestseller. In fact, it’s the book of the year. There must still be fear out there among His people after 2000 years. And it’s only going to get worse. Our freedom to practice what He preached is in danger. His return seems more imminent than ever. Our world seems more lost, not less.

“Indeed the hour is coming . . . that you will be scattered . . “. —John 16:32. Indeed, instead of being on the triumphant march, we seem to be in steady retreat. We are scattered into our individual denominations separated by our colors and dogmas that we probably couldn’t explain to Him if we had to. 

Worse, each congregation scatters on Monday. The glory of Sunday unity and worship is soon forgotten and by Monday morning we are on our own. Individually, we scatter,  What measure of focus on Him we achieve on Sunday is scattered. We are like the disciples. “The disciples were scattered to their own concerns and they had interests apart from Jesus Christ. After we have the perfect relationship with God, through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, our faith must be exercised in the realities of everyday life.”

Jesus didn’t die and rise for a once a week faith. Easter is suppose to change everything and everything means everything. He did it to erase life governed by fear and substitute it with ” faith being exercised in the realities of life.”

“. . . you . . . will leave Me alone.” Have we been scattered and have we left Jesus alone by not seeing His providential care for us? Do we not see God at work in our circumstances?

Easter Monday is what it was all for. If He is not risen on our Mondays, He’s not risen at all. If our lives remain ordinary and fear based, what was it all for? If we don’t wake up on Monday with marching orders from Him,  why do we wake up at all?