unbind
Friday
April 11th, John 11: 41So they took away the stone. Then
Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I knew that you always hear me, but
I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe
that you sent me." 43When
he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" 44The dead man came out, his hands and
feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to
them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go." Jesus did the healing, the calling forth, but
Jesus also called into play the actions of others. You take off the grave clothes and let him go
from that which would bind him, what a beautiful description of ministry. Jesus calls forth and we unbind. Too often the church has been in the binding
rather than the unbinding business. We
bind with our traditions and rules, our histories and our hysteria. The old jokes about how many (fill in the
blank with any religion) does it take to change a light bulb, are just humorous
ways of looking at the bindings we use, it is a way to begin to see our chains
and dogmas that hold us down. Our
calling is to unbind and Jesus is calling us out of our tombs to do it.
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