May 17, 2022

Cheap Trick strikes the affixed and submerged bell that peals across our inner universe from cradle to grave. “I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I’d love you to love me / I’m begging you to beg me.”

Nearly everything we do is an attempt to have someone in particular or anyone at all say “Yes! I want you. Yes! I need you. Yes! I love you. Yes! I beg you.”  The problem with everyone clogging the airwaves with the same question is that nobody has the bandwidth to respond to anyone else.

Nobody except Jesus. He can feel like cold comfort when you want an answer from someone with flesh and bones. But, He did take on flesh and bones and answered your inner drum-beating question with His cross.

See Paul’s pithy summary. “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:5-8)

“Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Fifth Sunday of Easter -BCP)