Disruptions

Life is full of disruptions. No matter how hard we fight, we cannot prevent disruptions.


Disruptions to our exercise habits.

To our eating habits.

To our sleeping and socializing habits.

To our every movement.

Disruptions. 

Today is Holy Monday... the day that the tables were turned. One of the stories that we read in the gospels tells us the vivid narrative of Jesus entering the tables and turning the tables over... we can read the story and leave it as a story... or we can step back...

and disrupt our routine.

For, when we step back, we see that the tables being turned over tells us that disruption is coming... disruption to the life of the Jews.

Disruption to the routine of the whole world.

For in just a few days, Jesus will not only have turned over the sin that was happening in the temple courts. He will have turned over the sin that happens in the temple of our lives--the entire creation.

His death will be signaled with the tearing of the curtain in the temple.

With the blackening of the sky.

With the disruption of the day... for not just the lives of those living that day.

No.

The disruption lasts, to this day.

But here is the catch. Like every good disruption. It can be ignored. We can ignore the fact that we haven't gotten enough food. Or we've slept in by accident. We can move on. And we could try and do the same with the disruption of Friday.

But just like any good disruption, this one begs to NOT be ignored. This one begs to make an impact.

Will Friday, and the events of Friday disrupt your life?

Will the events of Friday disrupt and then, when they've just about disrupted your life more than you think possible... disrupt your life and form you into a human being that is shaped by the grace of Good Friday?

Life is full of disruptions. Will Friday's make a lasting impact on you?