Looking Ahead

Meditations for Seeking the Life in Christ

The Gospel of John 

October 18, 2024

Looking Ahead

Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance

John 20:1 

When you are reading this, Easter  is six months away (April 20, 2025), but let’s project ahead to Easter Sunday. Once again, we will join our congregations in proclaiming the wonderful and timeless affirmation that will open worship services in thousands of churches around the world.

 He is Risen!

He is Risen indeed!

Too often, this powerful affirmation is left echoing in sanctuaries without any impact on our world. Why? Because it is one thing to announce Jesus is Risen, with your friends, in the safety of a sanctuary; it is another to make the truth of this powerful affirmation your way of life.

As followers of Jesus, we are seeking to make the Life in Christ our way of life. In the devotional experience, Everyman’s Way to the Cross, which follows the fourteen Stations of the Cross, Christ speaks these words at Station Fourteen:

“So ends my mortal life. But now another life begins for Mary, and for Mary Magdalene, for Peter and for John, and you. My work as a man is done. My work within and through My church must now commence. I look to you. Day in, day out, from this time forth, be My disciple, servant, saint.”

In that meditation Jesus reminds us that his life was not complete until he crowned it by his death. Our life is not complete unless we crown it by our life in Christ.  Jesus has promised us: “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” With this assurance, Jesus commands us: “Go now!  Take up your cross and take my life as your life and complete your way.”

My Takeaway:         JESUS IS WAITING FOR OUR RESPONSE

 

NOTE: I hope and pray you have been blessed in reading these meditations on the Gospel of John, as much as I have in writing them. I do love this Gospel.

Beginning Monday, October 21, 2024, I will begin a series on Saint Paul’s letter to the Galatians. I will follow that with meditations in the seasons of Advent and Christmas.

Sē’lah                                                                                         

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2024 by Alex M. Knight

 

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