Good Friday is upon us and all that that means as Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Ever since Pentecost the church has been,
“receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching with, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.”
– 1 Peter 1:9-12
How much do we desire to look into these things? Has the Passion of the Christ lost its luster? C.S.
Lewis remarked,
“Indeed if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambitions when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased”
As humans made in the image of God, we are earthly and spiritual. The problem is we discount our spiritual nature and that our lives must flow out of spiritual realities like preferring mud pies. By doing this we live disenchanted lives lacking the natural wonder that even sinless angels possess. If you have a weaker desire than angels, may this Easter weekend ignite your imagination to know and experience the all-surpassing wonder that Jesus would suffer and die in your place.
