CRAZY TIMES

Life is so fragile. Things can and often do change in an instant. We are subject to crazy times.

Parents can get a call the middle of the night. . . You can get a call about your parents that you don't want to receive. . . The doctor can say, "The results are in and they are not good". . . Your mate can say, "We need to talk. . . "  You get the idea. Life is fragile. Yes, we are subject to crazy times. The kind of times like my friend had last Thursday when she got the call that her brother had experienced a fatal heart-attack [with no prior symptoms and totally unsuspected] just after leading Maundy Thursday services. We go into shock during crazy times.

This is not new. It is the nature of life since the Fall. What theologians--in the best sense, those brave souls who look at life from the lens of "what does this mean from God's perspective?"--call "the Fall" was more than a Fall. A "Fall" indicates that it might be a stumble or an accident or something that may be remedied by time and treatment. No, "THE Fall" was a classic wipeout in which humanity crashed and burned; it was a smashing into smithereens of  the good intention that God had planned for humanity and our planet. Something was lost in the Fall, something real and discernable. Adam and Eve lost their connection with God and found themselves in the freefall of chaos that has plagued our cosmos since that day.

Crazy times had come and if our God had not been of the rescuing type; the type that would redefine friendship as "no greater love has one than this, that you lay down your life for your friend"; we really wouldn't have a prayer. And even the fact that our Great and Merciful God is the type Who redeems, rescues, ransoms and restores does not stop the crazy times in this age. That is for the time of the new heavens and earth when Jesus will wipe away every tear and death shall be no more.

But until then, we live a life prone to crazy times. . . that is why the reality of Easter is so incredibly important. When our life is in chaos and dreams have died, there is One Who opens the tomb and brings life and light. And one day crazy times will give way to "the kingdom of this world will become the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever. Hallelujah."