Matthew 9:15a And Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding-guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they?
Have you ever been to a wedding where all the guests wore black and covered their heads? How about where everyone cried and wailed and stared blankly off into space wondering "What now?"
Of course you haven't. That's typically what do when we mourn. And Jesus gives us the "duh" comment - wedding guests don't mourn at the party do they? What he then goes on to say and to explain, taking this metaphor even further, is that the bridegroom is with us. Jesus is with us. So what are we mourning about? Where does our despair come from? Where does our hopelessness come from?
In this life there are surely times to be sad, there are surely times to grieve. But the grieving and the mourning and the hopelessness can never define us. Because Jesus is with us. Thanks be to God!
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Remember to join us this Sunday before the big game: 9 am Education Hour, 10 am ONE worship service, 11 am Congregational Meeting with lunch to follow.
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