Life is so full of hardship. I think about the war. People struggling to survive. I think about rising prices and supply chain problems that are causing scarcity and in some places hunger. Our world is broken.
Jesus walked a broken road in a broken world to a cross full of sorrows.
But there is something past the cross.
Something past the brokenness.
We're journeying through this most holy of weeks, holding all the brokenness in our hearts. Waiting with disciples with just as many questions, with hope and desperation. They didn't comprehend God's plan... Jesus didn't upset the Roman empire and restore David's throne. I don't fully comprehend God's plan either.
I feel like a disciple sometimes. I want a short cut. I want the straight forward path where God comes and banishes all heart ache forever. Life should be easy. The world should be put together.
But something happened between Good Friday and Easter morning. Something I still struggle to get my head around. God has a plan for all our brokenness. There is light beyond our pain. Peace beyond our thrashing. Hope beyond our desperation.
The disciples met the risen Lord on the road to Emmaus. Today, I pray for my own road to Emmaus where I can walk with Jesus and he can tell me everything.
For now, I hold the brokenness with a deep longing. The cross is still ahead. But, so is Easter.
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