And yet throughout recorded history, people have jumped to all sorts of conclusions about life - theirs and all humanity's any time an eclipse happened. And people in the know about when they were going to happen have been known to use that knowledge to their advantage. It gave them the opportunity to seem more powerful than others. But you had to absolutely have your facts straight or the opposite would be true - you'd seem less than you were seemed to be.
We participated in the Lord's Supper last Sunday at New Hope. It was a gloriously full Sunday with a child/parent/Church dedication on the agenda as well. And so the message was a short one, with a visible message at the end as we remembered the body that was broken and the blood poured out for our sins by our loving Savior.
I've participated in hundreds of that remembrance of the sacrifice Jesus made for us - for me. I've read those Scriptures aloud many times and read and studied them and their context even more. It was moving Sunday, and the Holy Spirit worked in our hearts.
Today I opened my devotional book - the one I've been reading for maybe 20 years??? And I came to a short article by Martin Marty, a New Testament scholar.
"The first words of Jesus to be transmitted in writing are quoted in Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. Before we hear anything else from Jesus's lips we hear Him saying, "This is my body which is broken for YOU."
The moment I read that today, I felt as though I had looked into the Son - His heart.
And it wasn't the knowledge I'd forgotten about the timeline of New Testament books that moved me. It was the words themselves spoken by a man who would die a few hours later that for a minute today, made me remember His sacrifice eclipsed all my sins - the passive and intentional acts - FOREVER.
Would it matter to you if you knew your sins could be (or are) forgiven?
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