Walking the Passage: Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

I love that question of Christ.

It doesn't just challenge me on Easter. It challenges me always. Every day that is a great question.

It is a litmus test.

It is a calling back to truth.

It is a great examiner of motivation, of intent, of ambition.

What am I looking for and where am I looking for it?

"Why are you looking for the living among the dead?"

What living am I looking for?

Am I beholding the one who is alive and living forth from that place or am I looking for Him in places He won't be found?

What things are dead?

What things are of no use?

What things still do and should reside in the tombs and graveyards?

I looked for life in a marriage.

I looked for life in children.

I looked for life in ministry, things I could do.

I looked for life in finances.

I looked for life in work.

I looked for life in relationships, friendships, connections.

I looked for life in church.

I looked for life in stores and shops.

I looked for life in titles, favor, responsibilities.

Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

What a most beautiful and majestic question? Not just for Easter but for every single day!

In acknowledging the death that comes from the pursuit of such things, it was a pushing through the crowds. The crowd full of what this world says to grab a hold of for success. In order to be successful one needs this or that, the right resume, the right job, the right home, the right clothes, the right cars, the right fill in the blank.

The pursuit becomes exhausting and as Solomon points out for all the ages that in the attaining of such things it is meaningless. Pushing through the crowds.. the noise... all... to lay a hold of His garments.

As news spread legs would begin to run...

Running to the tomb to find it empty....

For true life had come......

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.