Creation. Rescue. Re-creation

In the beginning… the Divine creates. In love, by love, for love… the Divine creates.

The waters are separated and there is a way forward, on dry ground, for humanity to flourish.

In the exodus event, the waters are separated and there is a way forward on dry ground for humanity to flourish.

In the rescue there is re-creation.

Before Jesus steps into his public ministry, he is baptized. He goes into the water and comes up… and Spirit descends on him… and the way forward begins… on dry ground.

In chapter 3 of John’s biography, Jesus has a pow wow with a religious big shot named Nicodemus, and Jesus tells him that one must be born again… to experience the way forward.

Rescue is re-creation.

In chapter 14, Jesus tells his students, “You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Thomas says to Jesus, “Lord, we don’t where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.”

And where is this season of Lent leading us to? To the place where the Divine declares in action that He would rather die than choose to kill.

The way forward is through the waters of forgiveness. The way forward is through subverting violence and death by going through death, and giving way to resurrection. By going into the belly of the great fish of death… for three days… and then coming out on dry ground.

Rescue is re-creation. Rescue inaugurates New Creation.

Creativity. Art. Love is always more powerful than violence. Love creates. Violence diminishes and destroys.

Seek. Search. Wrestle. Discover. Recover. Follow. Live.

But you know him, for he lives with you and is in you. (John 14:17)

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! ( 2 Corinthians 5:17)

Rescue is re-creation… which is New Creation.

This is in you… and for you. Today.