Children, Genesis 1
Message, Luke 8.22-26
I sleep
like Jesus!
Humor
sleeping
Jesus, who may just want to get back to sleep asap
Story as
metaphor
the
storms of our lives
Echo:
Detail in the text
“And
there was … a calm”
Echo
of Genesis 1
“And
there was … light”
“And
there was … evening; and there was … morning”
Identifies
Jesus with Creation, as the Creator
Identifies
Jesus’ word as Word of God that commands, calls …
wishful
thinking for our words
the
kids clean their room
(All
you kids who are in a hurry to become adults…)
Republicans
and Democrats work together
our
selves: it will never happen again
heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it
bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes
out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish
that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
ways that our own powers cannot.
“Master,
Master, we are perishing!” (8.24, Ha!)
For
the disciples, this was an emergency.
For
Jesus, it was a good time for a nap.
Creation
cycle
humans
the pinnacle?
But
it was the 7th day that was blessed: rest the pinnacle
Rest
is a fruit of trust … cannot rest when worried, sleep – anxious
from night
terrors to spilt milk, teaching children re emergency
Jesus
teaching: “where is your faith?” Rest a
fruit of TRUST.
Jesus the
Creator enters his Creation
Jesus
speaks, “and there was …”
There is
Creation work yet to do – Re-Creation, ReNewal of all things
Corruption
has touched what is created “good”
bondage to decay (the Law of Entropy) and will obtain the freedom of the glory
of the children of God. We know that the
whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the
creation, but we ourselves … groan inwardly.
Word):
For you shall go out in joy,
and be led
back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst
into song,
and all the
trees of the field
shall clap
their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial,
for an
everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
The Creator
enters the Creation and becomes “subject to decay”
For all of
us
who reject his Word and break our
word
who worry rather than trust, and
protect ourselves by breaking faith with one another
who have become disconnected from
and ignorant of the fingerprints of God in the Creation, and break the covenant
of Creation, the call to care for all God has made
himself to be broken so that we can be made whole.
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Gospel According to Luke I-IX,
Anchor Bible 28, Yale, 1970.
