Silent Time

How do things go in your life? All in all well? Or more to complain?

Give thanks to the holy God for the good days.

And even in difficult times of sorrow – raise your head! Remember what the Lord has done for you.

A punishment such as imprisonment is associated with negative thoughts.

But the intention, at least in case of sentences in fair legal systems, is a positive one, to let the criminal reconsider the mind and to improve the behaviour.

Everything is in flow – things come and go.

Seasons come and go.

Good and bad times come and go.

What remains?

Everything being made new – do you wish for it?

Mary and Joseph assumed that Jesus was amongst the travelling group back home.

Is Jesus amongst us, as we travel through life? Do you involve him into your life?

How exciting it is, if someone suddenly in life understands interdependencies between matters that earlier seemed to have nothing to do with each other. For example a student might understand how economic theories relate to his or her real life. Or an employee might understand the bigger context of how his small work contributes to a bigger purpose.

The blind beggar understood that Jesus is the big Saviour who had been awaited several centuries.

Among the things we would least expect to be mentioned in the good news, is a bottle of perfume. And even more strange is the context.

Why did Jesus not tear the chains, when they led him to crucification?

After all, he had and still has all power and easily could have torn them.

The reason for not tearing the chains surprisingly relates to us.

What is more important in your life – to play the lottery game? Or to participate in certain businesses and create income? Or the salvation that Jesus brings us and his sacrificial love?

By the time when Jesus was crucified, the soldiers gave priority to throwing the dice on who would win his clothes.

Graves and tombs can be scary, because they remind of death.

By that time, it seemed as if death and dark forces had won the victory. But not so.

Jesus has overcome devil, death, sin and hell. What a great news!

The tomb is empty. The Lord has risen.