Reflection: Feed my senses with this Saviour
Everything Jesus said and did pointed to a fresh reality—a reimagined ‘kingdom’.
It’s a renewal that begins in the heart.
Begins within, then blossoms without…and one day will bloom into all creation.
It’s a kingdom not about new rules and confounding politics.
It’s wind and Spirit. Wind on waves and Spirit like wind.
It’s earthy dirt and mud. Spit-made mud and writing in the dirt.
It’s sloshing water and savouring wine. Life-saving water, vinegar, and life-giving wine.
It’s parade. Flush of fans, palm fronds and donkeys on red carpets.
It’s food and feet. Blessed, washed, perfumed, pierced.
It’s bloody birth and death. Costly, painful, shameful.
Just before the Passover Festival, Jesus knows the time’s come for him to return to his Father. And oh, has he loved his own who are in the world. Warts and all…he’s loved them to the end. They’ve splashed and wiped tired feet, passed the bread and wine, argued, chuckled, mused. Now sidle up close. Attend to his intimate final conversation—his overtures of love. Lean on the Master, like John does. Hear that voice? Now you’ll recognize the pitch and tone. Now you’ll hear and respond to it.
Prayer:
I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, O weary one, lay down your head upon my breast.”
I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Behold I freely give
The living water; thirsty one, stoop down and drink, and live.”
I heard the voice of Jesus say, “I am this dark world’s Light;
Look unto Me, your morn shall rise, and all your day be bright.”
[I came, I looked and in Him I found the Light of life, my thirst was quenched, [and] my resting place.] Hymn by Horatius Bonar
Keep in mind: “We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.” (Harold S. Kushner)