Easter is Coming

Psalm 70:1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Be pleased, O God, to deliver me.
    O Lord, make haste to help me!

What is it that makes these words from the Psalm so poignant this week?

Is it imagining the words coming out of Jesus' lips as he prays in the garden of Gethsemene that the cup might pass him? (well, at least in Matthew, Mark, and Luke!)

Or is it imagining these words coming out of our lips as we realize that the events of this week will end up showing God's powerful and inordinate love for a rebellious and stiff-necked people like us?

Is it the fact that the crucifixion has been for many of us so hard to wrap our minds around that we've spent endless words and thoughts trying to understand it rather than just falling into the prayer of living out of it?

This video captures I think the tangle and the wonder of Easter, of how death does not have the last word.

Of how deliverance comes in the most unlikely of places.

(link here: Easter is Coming)

God of mystery, death does not have the last word. Deliverance is coming.  Make ready our hearts for it! Amen.