SO WHAT? – IT’S PASSION WEEK AND EASTER

Let me quote my daughter –

Hypocrisy in the church is so subtle it blends in with the auto-spritzing air-freshener things. What is the point of holding a week-long spiritual performance if, for the rest of the year, no one lives like He's alive?

My response to her was this: “Well said and keen observation. Why not be the minority who shows the difference by turning the week-long spiritual performance into a week-long spiritual revival?” Sometimes, out of the frustration of not seeing things change for the better but the same old same old, that we get so jaded that we give up, let out some frustrated frown, and move on with our own agenda. But I would like to suggest otherwise. Throughout history revival started because there were a few people who dared to believe, dared to be different, and dared to pray till…. It is interesting to note that the majority of the people were not interested, had care-less attitude, and pretty much do their own thing.

I can only hope that our intention of holding prayer meeting for the whole week during the Passion of Christ does not conjure the idea of any special spirituality that we can gain but that it would just be the laying of a pathway for our spiritual experience and growth. I think her statement may stir some people to think she’s being critical or judgmental. That’s alright if people felt that way. I have being teaching my children to speak out and to do it boldly what they are thinking but make sure that it’s a personal opinion and observation always allowing others to disagree or to rebut. I can’t really fault her for her statement because by and large that’s the attitude many people have in relation to their Christian faith and believe.

Think with me, many people still don’t give priority to God in their lives. Sad to say but it’s true that only when we get into a jam that we start running to Him for help and when things are fine we jolly go on our way and do our own thing. Maybe it’s good for us, at this time of the year when the church solemnly reflect Christ’s vicarious death and celebrate His victorious triumph over sin and death for us, to take time to reassess, to reexamine our lives in light of His unconditional love for us. We need to do more than just spend a week in solemn reflection but uses it as a starting point for a life-long living out the truth of God, the reality of God, and our need for Him every day of our lives.

Let us make sure hypocrisy does not blend in subtlety into our daily lives that we think we are spiritually in-tune with the Father but we are actually religious in our rituals and in our duties. Let us make sure that our devotion to the Lord is a daily thing, our intimacy with the Father is an on-going relationship, and our piety is not ritualistic but vibrant, passionate and contagious. Let us be grateful people for all times because Christ paid it all for us!

Praise God He rose from the dead – our Christian faith is meaningful, real, and relevant!