I’ve been living to see you,
Dying to see you, but it shouldn’t be like this.
This was unexpected, what do I do now?
Could we start again please?
These are the words from a song in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. In the production the song is presented by Mary, Peter and James shortly after the arrest of Jesus.
Put yourself in those days and you are a direct witness and follower of Christ. From the religious teachings of your youth, you know that God will send the Messiah and yet while you were with Him, you doubt and do not yet see Jesus as the Son of God. Then upon His capture your mind suddenly races and you recall all that He has done, all that you have witnessed and you begin to see that things add up differently then you expected. Now you begin to realize that He had been with you along.
Can you image the emptiness and the sorrow that you would feel to have learned that Christ was right in front of you the whole time and you never saw Him for who He is? How unexpected. Could He really have been standing next to me? How could He ever forgive me now? So, now that you see and now that you know, you ask, could we start again, please? A sincere and honest request yet how great the fear and how vast the emptiness they must have felt. A simple request and a simple prayer, could we start again, please? How many times have each of us felt this way and in the same way petitioned God to make it so.
Journey ahead 2,000 years and what do we see today? Do we see God’s presence in the world? Christ is with us today. Do we see Him? Or better yet would we know Him if you saw Him? He is among us. He is living with us and He is presenting Himself to us. But, for us to see Him, we have to open our hearts, open our minds and open ourselves and enter into a relationship with Him. When we cleanse ourselves from the distractions of the world and when we use the tools of our faith, then we will be able to enter in to that relationship. This opens our eyes and ears and will allow us to see Him in our daily lives, as He walks among us. We will see the glory of His grace, receive the beauty of His mercy and feel the calm of His forgiveness.
We all have been living to see Him and perhaps also we have look right passed Him. We know that by His redemptive love and through our faith that we will see Him when we pass. Let us not wait for that moment. Let us look for Him and experience His presence today. He lives within the hearts and minds of all His children. Open your eyes and see His love, His healing strength and His will being done through those He has chosen. Live to be with Him, live to do His will and live to experience the glorious gift of His presence that He freely gives to you.
Could we start again, please?
God answers this prayer with every day He gives to us. Because of the gift of His son and through His resurrection He is alive and with us today. We are given the opportunity to discover His presence every morning we wake and we are given the opportunity to start again.
Dying to see you, but it shouldn’t be like this.
This was unexpected, what do I do now?
Could we start again please?
These are the words from a song in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. In the production the song is presented by Mary, Peter and James shortly after the arrest of Jesus.
Put yourself in those days and you are a direct witness and follower of Christ. From the religious teachings of your youth, you know that God will send the Messiah and yet while you were with Him, you doubt and do not yet see Jesus as the Son of God. Then upon His capture your mind suddenly races and you recall all that He has done, all that you have witnessed and you begin to see that things add up differently then you expected. Now you begin to realize that He had been with you along.
Can you image the emptiness and the sorrow that you would feel to have learned that Christ was right in front of you the whole time and you never saw Him for who He is? How unexpected. Could He really have been standing next to me? How could He ever forgive me now? So, now that you see and now that you know, you ask, could we start again, please? A sincere and honest request yet how great the fear and how vast the emptiness they must have felt. A simple request and a simple prayer, could we start again, please? How many times have each of us felt this way and in the same way petitioned God to make it so.
Journey ahead 2,000 years and what do we see today? Do we see God’s presence in the world? Christ is with us today. Do we see Him? Or better yet would we know Him if you saw Him? He is among us. He is living with us and He is presenting Himself to us. But, for us to see Him, we have to open our hearts, open our minds and open ourselves and enter into a relationship with Him. When we cleanse ourselves from the distractions of the world and when we use the tools of our faith, then we will be able to enter in to that relationship. This opens our eyes and ears and will allow us to see Him in our daily lives, as He walks among us. We will see the glory of His grace, receive the beauty of His mercy and feel the calm of His forgiveness.
We all have been living to see Him and perhaps also we have look right passed Him. We know that by His redemptive love and through our faith that we will see Him when we pass. Let us not wait for that moment. Let us look for Him and experience His presence today. He lives within the hearts and minds of all His children. Open your eyes and see His love, His healing strength and His will being done through those He has chosen. Live to be with Him, live to do His will and live to experience the glorious gift of His presence that He freely gives to you.
Could we start again, please?
God answers this prayer with every day He gives to us. Because of the gift of His son and through His resurrection He is alive and with us today. We are given the opportunity to discover His presence every morning we wake and we are given the opportunity to start again.
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