DailyConnections.net

 

It is perhaps the most popular, universal motif.  Though the exact term eludes me this morning, it can be summed up as coming back against all odds.  It’s what makes the Rocky movies work, many good-guy-versus-bad-guy westerns, etc.  After a horrific pounding and assurance of total disaster, the cliffhanger hero re-emerges for a final, brilliant, total-victory comeback.  Good triumphs over evil and injustice.  Cool.

 

I guess that makes Jesus the greatest Comeback Kid of all.  But Jesus wasn’t hanging on by his fingertips; He was done, gone, over the edge, finished, kaput!  His enemies taunted Him on the cross, but imagine how His followers felt.  “Okay, Jesus, do it.  Show ‘em your awesome power. We’ve seen a lot in the last three years.  Come on.  Goooooo, Lord!”  It must have looked pretty bad.  Imagine when His body was taken from the cross.  “He’s dead?  You mean, that’s it?  Are you sure?  Check His pulse?  Oh, man, now what do we do?  Maybe we oughta beat feet out of town.”  Fortunately, we know the real end of the story, the three-days-later-Resurrection-in-Glory story!  Way cool! 

 

My point:  If we believe (and that’s the key: If we believe!), then all we have to do is … believe.  Especially at the darkest, most hopeless, most lost, most done-for moment, don’t give up, don’t walk out of the theater before the final scene.  Just believe.  Go God!  — jri

 

“‘He saved others,’ they said, ’but he

also heaped insults on him.”

    –    Mark 15:31-32