This new reality has become so weird. Connection separated by glass and screens.
I went to pick up an item needed for a school project from my grandmother. She had someone put it between the two sliding doors, I retrieved it, and then air hugged her with a glass separating us. We spend time with our friends…connected, but still separated by a computer screen.
This reality that would have seemed like something from a movie has become so strangely normal.
Never before have I seen the reality of “outside looking in,” where isolation and being separated has been illustrated so clearly.
This week we are going to celebrate the fulfillment of the new covenant. God’s new deal, His rescue plan. Without it we would be forever looking in, forever separate, being able to see His goodness in the sunrise, but unable to penetrate the glass window of separation.
The new covenant of Jesus’s blood abolished the glass, tore the veil, and His rescue plan was made complete. We no longer have to be looking in. We are no longer separated. We are welcome, and we can be His.
As we see our loved ones separated by the glass this Easter…let’s remember the One who broke through the barrier for us. We don’t have to stay outside anymore. We no longer have to live separated from the One who so dearly loves us.
Life with God is available. His blood broke the glass, it was a new deal, and we can enter into a relationship, one that we can feel, one that we can trust, and one that we can place our whole hope in.
That is what we celebrate this week. Connection. No more separation. Connection that is real and available. If you haven’t felt it before, if your connection with God still seems to be separated by the barrier of glass feeling like you are still just looking in, tell God you are ready. Invite Him through the barrier of your heart. Ask Him what that connection might mean in your life and one step at a time, begin to live free.
That’s what this week is all about, as we celebrate the fulfillment of the greatest love story ever told. God’s fight to break the barrier, separating Him from the ones He loves because He wants us connected to and with Him forever.
HLLF,
