Renew Your Mind

"But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared." Luke 24:1 The sun comes up , again, on a garden. This was where our journey began- in a perfect garden, where God walked in the evening breeze. So much has happened to the human beings that God created- their journey has taken them far away from that garden, and by Friday it seemed that they had put to death their only hope of walking in the garden again. But today, in a garden of tombs, God walks again. "But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping?' She said to them, 'They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.' When she said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did...

"I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed..... The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him."   Exodus 15:1,2 This great journey was a journey out of oppression into liberty; out of labour for another into a future where work would be done with dignity; out of powerlessness into independence; out of hopelessness into promise. No wonder the people sang with Moses and Miriam, songs of praise to God who had set them free. The journey begins with such drama, such emotion, miraculous signs and wonders. Some journeys begin small, but not this one- this one is marked by walls of water, defeated and drowned enemies, dancing and tambourines. In this season of Lent we look forward to Easter morning, when again a great and decisive journey from darkness to light is celebrated- a journey that changes forever the identity of those who share in it.