A journey from one garden to another
The journey of Holy Week is rich in resonance- in the path Jesus travels we hear the footsteps of Adam, of Moses, of Rahab, of David....
"After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with the police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, 'For whom are you looking?' "
John 18: 1-4
The first betrayal happened in a garden. It was the act that sent man and woman out of Eden on their journey, seeking a way back home. And now it is again in a garden, a place pregnant with the promise of rest, renewal and life, that death is traded instead.
God creates us with free will, with the potential for glory or for ruin, and asks that we choose.
For those who choose to serve God, their journey will end in another garden, a garden redeemed...
"Then the angle showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the streets of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month: and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations."
Revelation 22: 1,2
"After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with the police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, 'For whom are you looking?' "
John 18: 1-4
The first betrayal happened in a garden. It was the act that sent man and woman out of Eden on their journey, seeking a way back home. And now it is again in a garden, a place pregnant with the promise of rest, renewal and life, that death is traded instead.
God creates us with free will, with the potential for glory or for ruin, and asks that we choose.
For those who choose to serve God, their journey will end in another garden, a garden redeemed...
"Then the angle showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the streets of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month: and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations."
Revelation 22: 1,2
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