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Friday, May 23, 2t)l 4
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Waiting With Patience
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Easter Lives On
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Perhaps some boys who fought
in ‘63
Beneath this nature’s carpet
have been laid.
Perhaps some “Spanish Vets”,
beneath this tree
In final rest, have shared it’s
gentle shade.
Sleep on: No hand profanes
your sacred bed;
Your treasured blood was shed
for liberty.
In this, God's land, the tempo-
rary encampment of the dead.
The hallowed ground your final
camp shall be.
And now, today, your comrades
who live on;
Thought some are battle-scarred
and halt and lame;
Pause here, and in their love,
though you are gone,
Perpetuate your glory and your
fame.
The curse of war ... the shriek
of shot and shell.
Have passed like raging tempest
from the sea.
Yet in our hearts, the gallant
ones who fell
Live on, enthroned in treasured
memory.
Tread softly here. Beneath this
verdant sod
There rests the dust of men who
fought and bled.
And now, before our Maker and
our God,
We deck the mound above each
sleeping head.
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FOOD FOR! HEART
"O taste and see that the l .ord is good."
- Psalms 34:8
And maybe some who fought in
'17
And gave their lives the Stars
and Stripes to save.
Have found, beneath this lighter
patch of green
An honored resting place, a sol-
dier grave.
things ruled by death, the places
where death is used as tool to
induce fear or compliance, the toys
and activities whose only purpose
or function is the production of
death, and the whole range of
speaking that makes death the lord.
Death is a false lord, who attempts
to rule us, and conform us to its
image. But thanks be to God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, for
by his death he has destroyed death.
He alone is the true Lord, the one
whose domination, rule, and mas-
tery is the rule of grace, the rule of
mercy, compassion, and a spring in
the desert gushing up to eternal
life. Christians are an Easter peo-
ple. Let us. with the martyrs and all
the saints of the Church, embrace
the new life given to us in the Body
of Jesus Christ.
death, scores of Chris-
tians have preferred
death to the worship of
false gods, participa-
tion in violence, or
assisting in sustaining
political arrangements
that are sure to disap-
pear one day. To be
fully persuaded by
Christ means to become
skeptical about what-
ever else claims to
secure and sustain life.
To accept the message
of Easter means to
engage in the hard,
slow work of disassoci-
ating with the things
that make for death, the
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received the vision from
God of being king, but
had no authority to accom-
pany that vision. David
had to wait.
During his wait David
was one of the most loyal
subjects of the king. He
was King Saul's replace-
ment yet he loved the
king, ministered to him in
his distress, and protected
him in time of threat.
David carried with him
the memory of Samuel’s
anointing him. That day
of anointing could not be
vanquished by life in the person of ity is one where death no longer
Jesus Christ. By his dying to sin, he rules. It’s this vision that has
died in the flesh, but in being found inspired the martyrs of the faith all
pure and without sin, he was also these years. It even inspired Tertul-
day of observance and celebration, point, most kids like
So we give it forty-nine days, con- tormenting these things,
! eluding with Christ’s Ascension pulling grasshoppers
and the Day of Pentecost. During limb from limb for no 1
these days the themes of life and reason besides pulling J
death pervade our hymns, readings, grasshoppers limb from I
important event in the history of dogs. cats, frogs, bugs, m-____—
and the like. At some M M m
Here at St Luke’s. Easter carries clearly and very early by children’s
on. And why wouldn’t it? The most meanness and cruelty towards
...... - their all for
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the land of the free.
and prayers. The Pascha Nostrum, limb. That fascination
a hymn we recite each morning in almost always requires
Eastertide. is a good example. It being trained out of us.
proclaims, “Christ being raised We try to avoid death;
from the dead dieth no more; death we try to harness and FAT! IFO
hath no more dominion over him. wield it; it frightens us; TMinaEI
For in that he died, he died unto sin it thrills us. The normal JUSTIN
once; but in that he liveth, he liveth condition of human liv- r. —rAiurn
unto God. Likewise reckon ye also ing is one pervaded. FLElHER
David. David waited. In
his wait. David didn't pro-
mote himself. In his wait,
David didn't discredit his
predecessor. In his wait,
David didn’t try to make
something happen. David
remained faithful. David
continued to do what he
knew was right. He was
loyal to his king and com-
mitted to his God.
David didn’t become
frustrated, he just waited.
God orchestrated the
events and in God’s tim-
ing David became king.
Has God given you a
promise? How you wait
for the fulfillment of the
promise influences the
fullness of the promise
received. Don't get frus-
trated. impatient, nor
angry with God. Don’t
allow your wait to cause
your faith to diminish.
Don't try to make some-
thing happen. Learn from
David and wait patiently
on God's timing and enjoy
the fullness of the prom-
ise.
the position,
but didn't have
the identity nor
recognition
friends."
Below is a
poem dedi-
cated to the
brave men
and women
who gave
The hymn says that death has no
more dominion over Christ, and
dominion is a crucial word to catch
the full meaning. The English word
dominion comes from the Latin
dominus which means, lord, mas-
ter, or ruler. In being raised from
the dead, death has no more mas-
tery over Christ. It doesn’t rule
him. It has no power or sway over
him. In his actions, death is no lon-
ger even an a possibility. His life
belongs entirely toward the true
Lord, the God of Israel. Similarly,
we are bidden to order our lives
toward the Lord, having no fear of
death.
Implied by that statement is the
normal condition of human living,
being ruled and dominated by
death. Our lives are typically con-
sumed by death. Most often this
manifests itself by our various
attempts to avoid death at all costs
j - quite literally all costs. But there
also exists a kind of fascination
with death, especially a kind of
fascination with holding the power
, of death. This can be seen very
he began to
reign as king.
For approxi-
mately 15 years
David waited.
He had the
anointing of
king upon his
life, but didn't
have the posi-
raised, never to die again. Not only lian, a third century theologian, to
has Christ been raised, all who die goad those who sought to kill
to sin with him will also be raised. Christians because they refused to
That’s why the hymn exhorts us to burn one grain of incense before
reckon ourselves “dead indeed unto statues of emperors, saying. “The
sin, but alive unto God through blood of Christians is the seed of
Jesus Christ." Christ’s destruction the Church." The act of martyrdom
of death creates a new reality not became identified as the greatest
for himself alone, but for the entire act of imitation of Christ. The mar-
created order, including you and tyrs of the Church remain deeply
me. Those joined to Christ’s Body cherished and venerated members
in baptism are made participants of of the Body of Christ. For them,
a new life lived unto God. We live truly death had no dominion. Death
this new life, not on our own, but is not their lord.
through Jesus Christ, as the hymn In a moment of great paradox.
yourselves to be dead indeed unto dominated, by death. VICAR
sin, but alive unto God through Easter, however, calls St LUke’s
Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia." humanity to a new real- Eliscopal Church
The Easter message announces ity made possible by
the death of death. Death has been Jesus Christ. That real-
phetie word was given
concerning the future
reign of Jesus and His
kingdom which will have
no end, Isaiah 9:7 says,
Messiah will rule “upon
the throne of David".
Could the patience in
waiting for the promise
influence the fullness of
the promise received?
David could have been
king without the fullness
of being the “greatest
king" and having an “eter-
nal throne”. God wanted
more than just king for
1
k
Waiting in line, waiting
for an appointment, wait-
ing in traffic works on my
patience. My impatience
works havoc on my atti-
tude. I get irritable,
touchy, argumentative,
and frustrated. Then I
have to repent and ask the
Lord to forgive me for my
crummy attitude.
David is my hero as an
example of patience. I
Samuel 16:13 Samuel
anointed David as king of
Israel. At that time of
anointing the Spirit of the
Lord came upon David.
Right then David was rec-
ognized by God as the
new king of Israel. Verse
14 tells us that the Spirit
of the Lord departed from
Saul. God replaced Saul
with David.
David was the youngest
in his family. We are not
given a reference to
David’s age until he goes
against Goliath. 1 Samuel
17:42 records Goliath see-
ing David as "a youth".
At the time of his anoint-
ed as king of Israel David
was likely a teenager. 2
' Samuel 5:4 tells us David
The words
Samuel spoke
were etched on
his heart. But
David waited.
The day of the
promise ful-
filled did come.
David reigned
as king of Isra-
el. David was
the ■ greatest
king in Israel's
history. David
became the
standard by
which all other
kings were
John 15:13,
“Greater
love hath no
man than
this, that a
man lay
down his life
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