Good Morning All,
“I’m kind of a big deal you know!” It was all I could do to keep from laughing
out loud. Many years ago, I was
listening to my great nieces and nephews play at Christmas time. They are mostly quite young. One of them wanted to play the way he wanted
and a different one wanted to do something else. The first one wondered why the second one got
to decide what they were going to do.
The response, “Well, I’m kind of a big deal you know!”
When you are “kind of a big deal”, you tend
to think that the world revolves around you.
When the one who says this is two or so, it is funny. When the one that says this is twenty-two, it
is more troublesome. Yet as we look at
the events of our lives or the people of our lives there are times when it was
“kind of a big deal” to us. When I
finally convinced the girl of my dreams that I would try and be a good spouse
and she agreed, it was kind of a big deal.
When each of our boys was born, it was kind of a big deal. Marriages, births, and deaths are kind of big
deals in our lives. So are health
issues, job changes, graduations, empty nests, retirement, and the like are
kind of big deals.
Our verse is from Matthew’s account of
Jesus’ death. The moment he died, the
curtain torn in two from top to bottom and the earth shook and the rocks
split. That would have been kind of a
big deal. Not only did this happen but
graves opened up and many saints were seen.
The death of Jesus was kind of a big deal. It changed mankind’s direction. For those of us who are the redeemed children
of God, this event brought an end to the devil’s tyranny. This event took us out of the spiral of sin
and lifted us into Christ’s resurrection.
This event paid our debt, a debt that we could never pay and put us
righteous before God.
The Temple curtain tore, top to bottom,
shoeing that God had destroyed the veil between us and opening up the path for
us to come to him directly as a loving child comes to his loving father. The earth shook and the rocks split; even
creation knew that this was a big deal.
Christ took on mankind’s sin and paid for it all. More importantly, Jesus took on your sins and
mine. We are part of this great
blessing, this wonderful gift from God; it is kind of a big deal. We have the promise of the Creator-Redeemer
God that we will have eternal life with him.
That is kind of a big deal.
Dear
Father, your mercies are new to us every day.
We give you thanks for the blessings of this life especially for giving
us the hope of salvation in Jesus. Be
with those who are in most need of your grace.
In Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen.
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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