Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
We recently celebrated Palm Sunday and I was blessed to officiate the wedding ceremony for my son and his fiance. As my son and future daughter-in-law stood before God and witnesses I recalled that on a Palm Sunday years ago my son was baptized into his new life in Jesus Christ. What an awesome day it was for a wedding as to celebrate another opportunity for a new life in Christ through our Christian marriages.
Yes, this Palm Sunday was a joy in the fact that my son was married, but the true joy was the opportunity to celebrate the joyful entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. Living one's life in joy is how God truly wishes us to lead our lives. This Holy week that begins in joy will soon turn to despair and mourning as Christ is arrested and crucified. But that is not the way God intends it to end, because true joy returns on Easter morning with the empty tomb and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Beloved, we as followers of Christ are given many opportunities to begin life anew and with a clean slate. When we are baptized into new life in Christ we are given the blessing of never being the same again as God gives us a brand new clean slate as to document our lives. Additionally, when we are married, and have our children, we are given the opportunity to begin that life with a clean slate of possibilities.
Yes, our lives are a clean slate with Jesus, and it all began with the Joy of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem that would lead to the joy of the empty tomb in which Christ defeated the sting of death on humanity. My prayer for you today is that you recall your new life in your baptisms, as well as the joy that Christ has given us to make each life event a clean slate of possibilities.
Go out in joy this week, and know that through Christ Jesus we are not past dwellers but rather his people moving into the future with endless possibilities.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
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