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In honor of Columbus Day, I thought I would talk a little about Columbus. Returning from the discovery of a New World had made Columbus a celebrity. Of Course, it wouldn't be know for a while, yet, that it was a New World. Columbus thought that he had discovered a short route to India. Nonetheless, the voyage was bold, adventurous, and profitable. Columbus was admired for his daring. But there were some who ere jealous of his celebrity status. According to one story, there was an occasion on which Columbus over heard a couple of fellows belittling his feat. "Anyone could have done it," they said. "All one had to do was to sail far enough west." Columbus picked up an egg and asked if either of them could balance it on its end. Each man tried and failed. They came to the obvious conclusion that it was impossible to do. Columbus took the egg and, tapping one end ont he table jsut enough to slightly break the shell, left it standing there. "Even something impossible is easy to do," Columbus said, "once someone shows you how." Maybe that is the one of the reasons why Jesus came to the Earth. Think about it. We had a problem. Since the sin of Adam and Eve, back in the Garden of Eden, men had been dying. Man had been barred from the tree of life that would have allowed him to live forever. (Genesis 3: 22-24) And, since that time, man's life had been little more than a long march toward the grave. Death was a serious problem. One that was impossible to overcome. At least, until Jesus showed us how. Men had a hope of a resurrection, but they could not grasp it. Mary and Martha looked forward to seeing their brother Lazarus in the resurrection of the last day. (John 11:24) Jesus explained, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live." Later, He gave his life on the cross, was buried, and rose from the grave. He had done the impossible!!! In showing us how death is overcome, He made the impossible easy for us. "We are buried with him, through baptism, into death, that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should also walk in newness of life." (Romans 6:4) "If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him." (Romans 6:8) --Stephen Seibert |
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