11/26/2019
A poem by Jon Elvrum It is You whom I see pinned, nailed to the cross dying there for me even as He is dying there for you. It is exactly this moment that has called out to me these more than twenty centuries later. See now, the moment when the sky grows dark dark as the moment seems as dark as the moment feels. I see that He has given nearly everything for us, to achieve our salvation, yours and mine. He has nearly nothing left to give...yet He is not finished. He thirsts for our redemption for our reclamation and salvation; yours mine all the lives of everyone still lost all those still unredeemed. I thirst, He said Among the seven last words recorded His words remembered, His words written down there can be found these two pain-filled words... I thirst... and a soldier squeezes vinegar into a sponge, lifts it up on spear's point history does not know if this was just more abuse or a sad attempt to offer help, even misbegotten help ... an attempt to offer something... anything that might assuage the dryness, relieve the parched throat; soothe the broken body; something offered when no other thing seemed available to give. Lord, I see that you rejected the sponge as soon as you knew it was not the water that You intended it was not the Living Water that You offered the woman at the well not the Revelation water the Holy Water, water meant to redeem water meant to restore; not the water from the rock at Meribah that kept the earliest of the Chosen together, even in their deepest disarray. It has always been about water... The creation story tells about all was water then water divided, earth formed; water mixed with earth used to form Adam. It was always about Your thirst for us always about Your love for us about Your desire that we be obedient that we come to the water that we come to You for baptism by water, water for relief water for forgiveness for healing, for cleansing, for repair, water for redemption. I thirst, He said... "Come," He said, "all who are heavy laden and I will refresh you." He offers us His water to drink... The old song says it: "Come to the water. Stand by my side. I know you are thirsty. You won't be denied..." He said it first to us, first for us. I thirst, He said. We should be obedient. We should be thirsty. We should come to the water, His water. And we should drink deep! He thirsts for us. SELAH! Amen Comments are closed.
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