A Servant Lesson
Come, join with me, let us join the disciples as they enter the upper room for their Passover meal, this meal would also be the last with Jesus before He went to the cross. Jesus was the only one in the crowd that knew it.
Let’s imagine that evening, let’s imagine what was probably on the minds of Jesus’ disciples. I’m guessing that their first thought was who would sit where? Perhaps, even pushing and bumping each other out of the way to get the preferred seat. Who would be in the “honored” seats?
They all knew where Jesus would be reclining, the 2nd seat on the left side. The seat of the host. The question on their minds was, who would be sitting in the most honored guest’s seat on Jesus’ right and then who would be the second honored seat on his left? Does this seem a little familiar? How times have you wondered where you might be seated at a wedding reception? How many of you remember arguing with brothers or sisters about who called “shotgun first?” I kind of liked sitting in the middle in the pickup. Thereby avoiding opening or closing the gate. The shotgun seat had its privileges, opening the gate wasn’t one of them! Still, everyone scrambled for the chosen seat.
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The Terrible Cure
One Sunday I went home feeling great about the services that morning. The hymns and offertory music were beautiful and on point. The readers read well. The prayers were earnest. Attendance was strong and the sermon seemed to have hit home well. It was a very blessed day. After almost everyone had left, I went to my office to take care a few things before heading home. But there was trouble. A nasty computer virus had entered my computer.
Viruses are bad, but this one really scared me because the message said: Infected registry. That’s really bad. Here’s why. Everything we do with a computer, all the programs and documents, are in the operating system. The registry is all the stuff your computer does right when you turn it on, before your home screen even pops up.
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Gratitude
I asked the children, what’s going on outside? I’m sure if I asked that to this group, we would come up with a lot more! We’ve got all manner of issues going on locally, and in the world. Crime. Traffic. Tariffs. Wars. Hostages. We see all manner of trouble, and we have no control over it.
In today’s gospel, we have a story with a story. Inside we have the scene with Jesus, Lazarus, Martha and Mary and Judas among his other disciples. But in order to understand their gathering, we need to look at what’s going on outside in their world, beyond the walls of the house. And we need to consider what happened before this moment and what is to come. I’ll set it up for you!
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