"He said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ "(Luke 16:30)
Today is Ash Wednesday. A day when we are reminded of our mortality and our need for repentance in our lives.
All of us have something that we need to repent of. The degree of brokenness may vary but the healing is still the same. The question is always what would it take to get us to see what is going on with ourselves and repent and start over?
In the quote, the rich man believes that someone coming back from the dead would wake up his brothers to the brokenness of their lives. In Jesus' parable he says that won't work. If you don't already know what to do being scared straight won't work either.
The reminder all of us have is that Christ raising from the dead is the restart that we can choose to have. But we've always been pointed that way because scripture tells us this.
The chasm of us and them is still very real. Perhaps it is only through following Christ that we can hope to decrease the size of that chasm.
Blessings,
Ed
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