“In many respects I find an unresurrected Jesus easier to accept. Easter makes him dangerous. Because of Easter I have to listen to his extravagant claims and can no longer pick and chose from his sayings. Moreover, Easter means he must be loose out there somewhere.”
Philip Yancey
That is the name of a twitter page.
All of us should think more about ETERNITY I think!
I am looking at a flyer with beautiful pictures. I picked it up some time ago. In Auckland I think it was at Christmas.
The first picture with a description shows Tuscany in Italy, the second the Ritz in London.
But in a special way I am interested in the writing at the top of the leaflet, where is written “Escape Holidays”. Underneath it talkes about “getaways”, not ordinary “getaways”, but unique “getaways”. It says there “UK & Europe unique Getaways”.
A getaway is the act of escaping. Criminals are escaping! When I escape, I get away or I break free from a prison for example or from any other confinement. An escapee is an escaped prisoner.
But you know all that already.
There is a verse in the Bible, the Word of the Living God, that says “that we are all prisoners of sin”. Galatians 3:22 Read also First John 1:8
There is also an image of France on the flyer on the second page. That escape to France is rather expensive. It says there “4 nights from $2729pp*”. A very expensive “getaway”.
The problem is only that we are still a prisoner of sin when we are arriving in France. No matter where we are going, we are a prisoners of sin and we are remaining a prisoner of sin – until we receive God’s promise of freedom by believing in JESUS CHRIST.
“I CAN BEAR IT ALL, FOR JESUS SUFFERED, AND HE SUFFERS IN ME NOW; HE SYMPATHIZES WITH ME, AND THIS MAKES ME STRONG.”
One of the early martyrs
“DAS GEBET IST DIE GEHEIMNISVOLLE VERBINDUNG VON DER OHNMACHT DES MENSCHEN ZUR ALLMACHT GOTTES.”
Jacob Abrell
In my daily reading of the Bible I read just now Joshua 9:14 where it says:
“The men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not inquire of the Lord.”
Are we not doing the same at times. We are doing everything else , instead of coming in prayer before the Lord.
“When I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others:
I have finished my work, but I cannot say I have finished my life. My day’s work will begin the next morning. My tomb is not a blind alley. It is a thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight to be open in the dawn.”
Victor Hugo
