The Light at the end of the tunnel

One of the things that the appearance of Jesus did in history was spoil the show most people were so involved and passionately pushing forward.How true is Is amazing as look back at this event how people totally misunderstood Jesus and his message as they missed the fact that Jesus was not saying to stop the show as much as he was saying that the show could be so much more if we looked at the same script he was flowing with.

As I think about this event I start to see that maybe what Jesus meant when he said that you could not put new wine into old wineskins was that we could not enter into the reality of the show he was living in with the same approach we were currently undertaking. Perhaps God knew that the restrictive and controlling systems and reality we had created would limit the dance he all along longed to have with his creation to the tune of the unforced rhythms of grace and not rules. Or maybe he was trying to show us that there was a lot more happening to and in us when we stopped and observed things we think very little of like taking the time to watch the trees wave in the wind and the flowers dance in the cool of the summer breeze. Or watching the waves deliver both their powerful roar out in the open ocean and their gentle touch when they finally reached the shore. Or how about the sunset and the way the sun gently kisses the waters in the horizon as it goes on to fulfill the promise that though the night might be long the morning will eventually come so the show can go on.

It is true that when God showed up in Jesus the impact he had upon history was so evident that even the calendar we use was changed. Yet as I look further and deeper I see that perhaps what this Dad of ours came to help us see was that the light at the end of the tunnel was not an illusion like the tunnel we believed separated us from this eternal light within us called his Kingdom…

Have a great week!

-pablo-