6th Sunday of Easter

 

Nicene Creed Pt. 3

The Story of Jesus

Each one of us has a story to tell about our lives.

A unique and unrepeatable story.

Jesus too has a story to tell.

But how well do we really know His story?

It began when He was made Incarnate.

In-carnate means “In the flesh.”

In Jesus, God came to us “in the flesh.”

But God is Spirit,

where did God get His flesh?

from the Virgin Mary.

When the Holy Spirit overshadowed the Virgin Mary,

The Spirit of God and the flesh of the Virgin Mary Came together

and Jesus the Son of God was conceived

In the womb of the Virgin Mary.

The God who had no beginning and has no end.

Who made the mountains like He was building sand castles

And put the stars in the sky like He was rolling dice,

The God whom the heavens and earth cannot contain,

Became Flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

But He grew up in Nazareth.

What did He do there?

Did He play with His friends.

Did He go to school?

Did He do chores around the house?

When He was 30 he left home

And moved to Capernaum.

A fishing village on the Sea of Galilee.

One could say His main job was that of being a preacher.

He would travel from town to town talking about His Father

And the Kingdom of God.

Healing the sick and forgiving sins.

He got quite a following,

But as soon as one becomes famous,

One also becomes a target,

As the Pharisees sought to do away with Him.

And they thought they had succeeded when He was

Condemned as a blasphemer and crucified by Pilate.

And they thought that was the end of the story.

But then the unthinkable and the unheard of happened.

He rose from the dead.

Not just in Spirit but in the Flesh as well.

Because the flesh is not a prison hold the soul in,

But a home for the soul to dwell in.

He then ascended into Heaven

As if to say, “In God Alone we fly!”

That however is not the end of the story.

For He will return,

To Judge the Living and the Dead.

To separate the sheep from the goats;

The good from the bad.

The Just from the Unjust.

And the Sheep and the Good and the Just,

Will enter His Kingdom,

Which will have no end.

When God became flesh in Jesus

God’s story became our story

His life became our life.

And at Baptism our story and the story of Jesus come together.

And then our story like the story of Jesus

Has no end!

God Bless