Rector's Message
Sunday
March 24, 2002The Evicted Stone
My Dear Friends in Christ,
"The Leaven" greets you in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on this joyous Easter morning.
With the force of an earthquake, the massive stone that seemed immovable on Jesus' tomb, was given an immediate eviction notice, and thrust helplessly out of its place, and pushed aside as loose dirt before a relentless earth-moving tractor.
It was the third day since the crucifixion of Jesus, and God was about to make His point in "life" and for life. Unlike Ezekiel's Valley of dry bones, life was not gradual, but instant.
Jesus arose from the dead; and as the hymn says so well: "the head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now."
Easter is the Day when God made His powerful statement against death, and His victorious pronouncement for life. Jesus is the life of this world. He has defeated death. The apostle Paul describes it beautifully in 1 Corinthians 15:55. He speaks to death in these words: "o death where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
The Resurrection of Christ tells us that if there is any unwelcome presence, that has taken up residence in your life, God will serve it an eviction notice, at your request. Nothing is too big for too heavy for Him to handle.
Do have a joyous Easter, with God's abundant blessings for and abundant life.
Yours in Christ
Augustine Joseph
Rector
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