Sermon: Risen Jesus - a step ahead of us
Why don’t we go Easter carolling this year?
OK …
I know we don’t even do Christmas carolling anymore. But still, why don’t we go Easter
carolling?
At
Christmas, we’re happy to let all the world know that in a child born in
Bethlehem, God has come to dwell among us – that in Jesus we are given the gift
of seeing how life is to be lived, and what kind of world Earth is meant to
be.
Joy to the world! The Lord is
come:
let earth receive her
king!
Let
every heart prepare him room,
and
heaven and nature sing.
So
why at Easter do we not take to the streets with songs that this One – the One
who heals the sick, lifts up the poor, forgives the sinful, welcomes the
rejected, challenges the powerful, and overturns injustice, is alive and still
kicking?
Why
is it we don’t go out some night this week or next – or maybe Easter morning,
to sing songs that the One who shows us real-human-living and Earth-set-right,
is still here … is not dead and gone … is not defeated by powers of evil,
ignorance and greed … is still alive, present and at work in the world in more
ways and places than any can imagine?
How
about this for a starter?
Joy to the world! The Lord’s still here:
Let earth embrace her king!
Let every heart rise up and cheer,
and heaven and nature sing.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor greed pollute the ground;
he's raised to make God's blessings flow
far as the curse is found.
He loves the Earth with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of God's righteousness
and wonders of God's love.
Easter caroling, anyone?
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