How Can We Ever Fully Comprehend The Events Of Holy Week?

As we move into the new spring month of April, when, in a way, we feel it is a time of a new start, we look at the state of the world around us, and we feel the crucial need for the proclamation of the Word to more people, more than ever. To powerful leaders, to busy working people, to impoverished folks, without hope. To those whose goals are: more - of money, power, fame. To the ones consumed with self-image, to those depressed, frightened, discouraged, to those, we might say, who mindlessly drift through life unaware of God or of others.
If only everyone were familiar with all that took place during Holy Week, it would seem to be enough to turn everyone’s attention and hearts to Jesus. Enough to divert everyone’s attention from the busyness of life and living to the meaning and the ultimate conclusion of the years we are given. To the, what then? of our lives.
If we were given only the scriptural record of Holy Week, we should probably need no more. This one week includes Jesus weeping over the city of Jerusalem for its future destruction, to His joyfully being hailed as the King of Israel, to His anger at the “den of robbers” in the temple area, to His patient teaching and comforting those who saw Him as the Son of God, to His silence before His accusers, His agony on the Cross, His shocking death, and, finally, to the Triumph of the Resurrection. What more do we, and the world, need than to study His words and actions recorded from this one week?
As we, at the end of this eventful week, gather to celebrate Easter, may we meditate on the really important reason for this season. It means life to us. Better now and perfect later.
May this Easter bring joy – and thoughtfulness – to everyone. Virginia