Tuesday in Holy Week

2 Corinthians 1:8-22

  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.  For all the promises of God find their Yes in him...

It was striking to read those words, that in Jesus it is always Yes, after reading " Zion stretches out her hands,  but there is none to comfort her."  The Lamentations reading makes it seem like there sure is a lot of No from God.  Life makes it seem like there sure is a lot of No from God.  No seems to be a common answer to our prayers.  So often our desires are frustrated and our plans twarted.  How often have we felt that if we could just have this comfort, this thing, this gift, this oppurtunity, this acceptance, then life would be right, then we just might be able to live more faithfully to God.  But we don't get the comfort, the thing, the gift, the oppurtunity, the acceptance.  God seems to give such a resounding "No!"

But in Jesus Christ it is always Yes.

You see, we very well may not get that for which we pray even in all earnestness, because often, really always, what God wants to give us is more than we could ask or imagine.  You see, what he gives us is his Son.  No matter what we think we need, what we truly need is always Jesus, and the answer to that request is always Yes.  Jesus is the answer to every need, Jesus is every promise that God has ever made, and Jesus was given to us all on the hard wood of the cross.

That is indeed why we utter the Amen to the glory of God.