Sayings
of a Gadfly
by Max Maxwell
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EASTER FAITHA pastor said, “On Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Paul wrote that, ‘If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.’ If we do not believe in the miraculous resurrection of Jesus, then our Christian faith is destroyed.”
The
Gadfly responded, “No doctrine is the fullness of your faith. As a seed sown in
the heart of the earth is not a tree, neither are the beliefs sown in your heart
a faith. If you do not love others as yourself, you will sow unlove, and there
is no resurrection which shall keep you from reaping its grim and bitter fruit.
And there is no God who will stop you from eating that fruit with a twisted face
and a mourning heart. Even if Christ were raised a thousand times by a thousand
angels, you must still eat the fruit that comes from the tree of your own
heart. If Christ has not been raised, then those who love will still love.
And faith shall continue to bear human souls upon lively wings. For dirty bones
have no power to destroy the faith of those who embrace life with the fullness
of their heart. Jesus the human, not the God, defines Christianity. It was the
Jesus who walked in flesh and blood who taught that the fulfillment of all the
law and the prophets is to love your neighbor as yourself. If you cannot
embrace the teaching of the man, then his death is meaningless, and belief in
his resurrection is nothing but a storm of faithlessness that darkens the world
with despair. Belief is, at best, a wandering butterfly that adds a splash of
beauty to the springtime of your heart. But love sinks its roots deep into the
heart of life through all the seasons. And even from the coldest grip of
winter’s neglect, love shall be raised. And from this resurrection pours forth
the fruits of human dignity, which are ever born again as the blossoms of true
faith.” |
© Copyright 2014 Kenneth J Maxwell Jr.