Good Garfday morning! Foo snickens appazatle muk feefleing! I read an interesting page on how April Fools Day got started in several cultures, including a prank on how it started in Rome. We tend to have a little fun on this day trying to find a "fool" to fool. I suspect the spell checker will not be fooled one bit by my little sentence at the start there; computers are notoriously ill-humored when it comes to such things. Every year we can read tales about some well-played pranks that have occurred on this day. The great stories in the Bible are no prank, though some would call us dupes.
Have you ever had someone turn their back on you? Jesus experienced a sort of mass back-turning in Jerusalem on this very day almost 2,000 years ago. From an entry of honor with palm branches and hosannas, to treachery, night-time skulduggery, mock trials, and the complete rejection by the crowd. On the very next day that crowd even called for his crucifixion. We don't have a method of execution that ghastly and painful today, but it would be something like holding a ticker tape parade with honorary banquet, and then the same crowd calling for the honoree to be hung slowly on the next afternoon. We have a hard time imagining that could happen, but it did.
In this life you will hold the lantern that Jesus gave you with a little bit of His light shining into the darkness. Some will turn their backs on you; some of those might even be formerly close friends as Judas was to Jesus and the disciples. Don't hide your light when that happens! That former friend might walk away from you forever, it happens. Give them up to the Lord and keep on shining the light of Jesus. For every person who 'cannot buy' the story of Christ's resurrection, there are many who long to hear the good news we have for them.
Praise the Lord for this day!
Bucky
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