Because of Love: Passion Week 2012

Here we are, in the middle of passion week. Is anything been different for you this week? I started off the week with high hopes of change, but it has been much the same. I am still stressed out from work. I am still running around like a chicken with my head cutoff. I feel like, were I in Jerusalem, 2000 years ago, during the first passion week, I would have missed the significance of all the goings on because it would have been ‘business as usual.’ I guess the question for me and all of us is a simple one; ‘Do we take time to recognize the Savior?’ I asked a similar question in my sermon on Sunday (Lessons from the First Palm Sunday: http://columbiacoc.com/index.php?view=sermon&id=10063%3Alessons-from-the-first-palm-sunday&option=com_sermonspeaker&Itemid=69) when I asked; ‘Do yo recognize the Savior?” meaning his work in our lives etc. But this current question is a little different. More specifically it is: Are we taking the time to see Jesus? To feel his significance in our lives? To reflect upon Him? To be in touch with Him? Are we truly stopping the rolling tide of our lives and getting connected to the Savior? More often than not, my life is too busy. To my shame, I just don’t settle down enough to recognize Him. Promise me (more importantly promise God) that you will take the time to meet with Jesus this week. Especially this week, during this time of reflection. The Passion Week has more significance than any other period of time in the history of world so let’s resolve to not let it pass without paying some attention to main character in that week, the Savior of the World!