Opinion

I find it interesting how certain events have a tendency to expand our vocabulary. I can’t recall using the words such “asympomatic,” “anecdotal ,” and “pandemic” so prolifically as in recent weeks. Covid-19, social-distancing, flatten-the-curve, safeat-home, and contact-tracing are terms I certainly won’t miss hearing or saying. Habits and behaviors changed in a matter of a single day. Handshakes and hugs have vanished. Curb-side pickup is all the rage. Eating home-cooked meals returns as a necessity. Online and drive-in church has emerged as a means of holding congregations together. Schools, governments, and businesses have been closed. Twenty-two million people have lost their jobs in a matter of a couple of weeks. Now, there are plans for how to “safely” open up our economy again.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Sitting here in my home under a shelter in place order with the windows open, listening to the birds sing and the warm caress of a 75-degree breeze blowing through the house I can’t help but think of the very first verse in the Bible.

Last week was a very influential in for us as humans. Jesus comes to Jerusalem as a king, washes His disciples’ feet, has the Last Supper with disciples, He is betrayed by a friend, beaten and nailed to a cross, died for my sins and your sins and rose again after 3 days. Let’s take a closer look at where Jesus is betrayed. Judas agrees to betray Jesus and still has the nerve to go to supper with Him. How did Jesus treat him even though He knew what was fixing to happen the next several days? I don’t know about you but I don’t think I could be nice to someone who I knew had done something so hateful to me but Jesus did! He loves Judas despite his short comings and mistakes. He made Judas feel welcome at His table.