ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
“You’re kidding yourself! It’s madness to believe the world will ever be changed.” They used to say that to Jesus of Nazareth. He’d walk off smiling, healing this one and then that one or some other one, as he went. “Are you sure?” he’d ask the stunned pessimists, over his shoulder, as he was swallowed up in the crowds of needy and bewildered people.
“Even the good things that happen don’t last. Everything slips back into the gloom it was in.” They used to say that to Jesus as he was led off to a brutal death. “Are you sure about that?” he said as he hung there alongside a penitent thief whose hand he would shortly take. Then one day he rose from the dead, all glorious, never to die again.
“Hope is the empty refuge of desperate souls. Evil governments will always have the power no matter what the vulnerable would like to believe.” They used to say that to Jesus as well. “Are you sure about that?” he would say, knowing that one day soon God would make him King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
“He’s gone and he’s never coming back.” They’re still saying that about Jesus Christ who one night took bread and wine and said to his followers, “Here, all of you eat and drink; I’ll be back.” So now millions of his followers gather every Lord’s Day to eat the bread and drink the wine and when they hear people say, “He’s gone and he’s never coming back” they say, “Are you sure about that?”
Like Baptism, Holy Communion on the Lord's Day defies the world of doom and gloom and unbelief!
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