Passion Week

This week, this week called Passion Week, started off at the wrong end of the righteousness spectrum. And the kicker is, I'm 25 and I finally, officially don't care to be "righteous." I think that the temptation is always in our lives to chase a quality of God's people, or God Himself, and not chase God. The temptation is to LOOK like someone who knows God intimately, without actually being able to recognize Him if He were to ask you for a cup of cold water. He knows this, and I know this is why He came in the personhood He did, blue-collar, ignorable, overlookable, even scoffable if attributed divine status. But the Garden was a fresh memory to Him, and not us. The Garden was a long lost dream for humanity, a never fading reality to God Himself, and He wanted the walk back. I think we just want most often for someone else to walk for us and we'll claim we walked ourselves. Even in light of that, our identity crises and all things trivial about who we want to pretend to be and who we'll actually take the time to become, the Passion Week forces us to look at a long list of human beings interaction with God-in-flesh, and boy... we totally screwed this up. The King who was paraded into the capital amidst shouts of "Hosanna" and "Blessed be"'s will end up this week democratically judged worthy of death, ridiculed by the soldiers that fell to their faces at His voice, rejected by His friends, and all so without questioning His love for them, and us. Confession time... if I'd have been Him- I'd have stayed dead. I take rejection HARD, and if they don't want me around so bad that they'll kill me... well, I can enjoy my Father's presence without them. And yet in true not-what-Greg-would-do fashion, He blesses the crowd gathered to be entertained by His execution, asks for their forgiveness, makes sure His mom is taken care of, makes a new friend on the cross next to Him, and embraces a state of being wholly unjust for a God to know. That story in itself is worthy worshiping this man over, and yet He goes further. He overcomes death, overthrows Hades, and steals the keys to both, that ANYONE who does want to believe now (and why would anyone not?) is welcomed as if this was the plan all along! Here's' the song that's been on repeat in my head for the past three weeks.