“THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR”

Perhaps many of us have seen an event that we were sure was exactly as we saw it. Example: you see a grown man run up and physically tackle another man. It appears as if an assault just took place. The reality of this story is “not so fast”. The man who tackled the other man saved his life. He jumped, at risk to his own life, to save the other man from an oncoming out of control automobile. All the other misunderstandings assigned a bad motive and a bad action to something that was rather heroic.

Jesus was arrested, falsely accused, beaten and crucified. To make their point even more brutal, they buried him and put a group of guards around his grave to make sure no one took his body. Point is “things are not always what they seem”. They only knew half of the story…the death and burial. From their perspective, death was final. No one walks away from a Roman crucifixion. The Jew from Nazareth is dead. Not so fast. That was Friday but they forgot Sunday is coming. They forgot the prophecies; they ignored Jesus’ own testimony. On the Third Day Jesus was raised to life defeating sin, death and the grave. Things were not as they seem.

We see from our perspective. We may need to ask God to help us see from His perspective. What seems to us to be a sure thing, we could not be mistaken, I saw it with my own eyes could in fact be not the whole story. Give God a moment to finish His work. Things are not always as they seem. It would be arrogance to think our way of seeing things is always right. After all, dead men don’t walk again or talk again. Problem is that just is not true. God was up to something. Why not pause and see what it might be. Things are not always as they seem. Just because we do not see it does not mean it is not so. You may be down but you might not be out if God is in the plan.

Blessings to you. See you Sunday, good Lord willing,

Pastor Tom