Day 32: When Who Is Around You Is Leaving...
Read: John 14:15 - 27
Is there anyone else out there who like me, follows the activities of
their High School Alumni Association? I mean those were the days of long
ago when things seemed to be a whole lot simpler and far less
complicated. There are some days when I check the Alumni page that
absolutely make me smile when I see some familiar faces that I once
knew. I will look for the names of my favorite teachers to remember
lessons I learned and contrast their influence then to what my life has
become over the years. Most of them are gone now. I will look at the
changes that have taken place to the actual school grounds then remember
those places with some measure of fondness.
To some degree as I take the time to remember their faces, their mannerisms, their lesson plans, I find that most of them have long since become a faded
memory. In a very real sense we have all left those times and places
behind to start new lives and new dreams and new families. There have been a few days when I have missed the crowded and noisy hallways some 400 miles away and 33 very long long years ago. The scene from today's passage of Scripture is another one of those
places where, if I had been alive that many years ago I would just
absolutely long to return to. Jesus is in the Upper Room with His
disciples, He's said He must go away. They'll be alone.
In the
passage we read today, Jesus was addressing disciples who were feeling
very scared because they were about to be alone. However Jesus has
promised that God is to send Someone, the Holy Spirit so they wouldn’t
be alone (verses 25, 26). Jesus was everything to those disciples.
Jesus walked the earth. It was an unforgettable life changing experience
for everyone. It was a three year whirlwind and odyssey filled with
great and miraculous signs and wonders, healing's, raising of the dead
and authoritative teachings the likes of which they had never heard before. He loved all of them with an uncompromising unconditional merciful forgiving love. Now He's leaving.
Today we call them reunions. Every five years or so we receive
invitations from our Alumni Associations to gather together at our
school cafeterias or any number of other local establishments and
embellish each others with our life stories. We take a few digital
pictures to remember the moment. So, for those disciples of long ago who
had no 'Kodak Moments', what about bringing those wonderful Father God,
Jesus the Son moments back to mind? Here the promise is that though
He is going away, Jesus will send another of the same kind. Another
helper, counselor, literally another one, The Holy Spirit to come
alongside that we will always remember who God is.
Let Us Pray: Lord, it is inevitable that as time marches on for us we will sometimes forget the memories we have shared and the people we have shared them
with. For it is the lot of man that his time on earth must one day come
to an end. But You O' Father, Son and Holy Spirit are eternal in the
heavens and as you have ordained from the beginning of time, there will
be many generations who will follow us who will need to be taught and
reminded of what You have done for so many who have gone before. O
Sacred Trinity, Holy, Complete and United as One God, And as One God,
uniting all created things, I pray: bring us all together in all things 'In
Remembrance of You'!
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Read: John 14:15 - 27
Is there anyone else out there who like me, follows the activities of their High School Alumni Association? I mean those were the days of long ago when things seemed to be a whole lot simpler and far less complicated. There are some days when I check the Alumni page that absolutely make me smile when I see some familiar faces that I once knew. I will look for the names of my favorite teachers to remember lessons I learned and contrast their influence then to what my life has become over the years. Most of them are gone now. I will look at the changes that have taken place to the actual school grounds then remember those places with some measure of fondness.
To some degree as I take the time to remember their faces, their mannerisms, their lesson plans, I find that most of them have long since become a faded memory. In a very real sense we have all left those times and places behind to start new lives and new dreams and new families. There have been a few days when I have missed the crowded and noisy hallways some 400 miles away and 33 very long long years ago. The scene from today's passage of Scripture is another one of those places where, if I had been alive that many years ago I would just absolutely long to return to. Jesus is in the Upper Room with His disciples, He's said He must go away. They'll be alone.
In the passage we read today, Jesus was addressing disciples who were feeling very scared because they were about to be alone. However Jesus has promised that God is to send Someone, the Holy Spirit so they wouldn’t be alone (verses 25, 26). Jesus was everything to those disciples. Jesus walked the earth. It was an unforgettable life changing experience for everyone. It was a three year whirlwind and odyssey filled with great and miraculous signs and wonders, healing's, raising of the dead and authoritative teachings the likes of which they had never heard before. He loved all of them with an uncompromising unconditional merciful forgiving love. Now He's leaving.
Today we call them reunions. Every five years or so we receive invitations from our Alumni Associations to gather together at our school cafeterias or any number of other local establishments and embellish each others with our life stories. We take a few digital pictures to remember the moment. So, for those disciples of long ago who had no 'Kodak Moments', what about bringing those wonderful Father God, Jesus the Son moments back to mind? Here the promise is that though He is going away, Jesus will send another of the same kind. Another helper, counselor, literally another one, The Holy Spirit to come alongside that we will always remember who God is.
Let Us Pray: Lord, it is inevitable that as time marches on for us we will sometimes forget the memories we have shared and the people we have shared them with. For it is the lot of man that his time on earth must one day come to an end. But You O' Father, Son and Holy Spirit are eternal in the heavens and as you have ordained from the beginning of time, there will be many generations who will follow us who will need to be taught and reminded of what You have done for so many who have gone before. O Sacred Trinity, Holy, Complete and United as One God, And as One God, uniting all created things, I pray: bring us all together in all things 'In Remembrance of You'!
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