So, says Jesus, it's time to celebrate!
It's happening! Not perhaps in the way you thought it would, but it's happening all right.... Resurrection, the ultimate hope of new life, is happening under your noses, and you can't see it.
But for those of us who can -- well, we're having a party, the same party that the angels are having in heaven, and you're not going to stop us.
This, it seems, is part at least of what it means that God's kingdom is coming "on earth as in heaven." The heavenly celebrations at the signs of renewal, the first flickers of a dawn that will soon flood the whole sky, are to be matched by the motley mob around Jesus here and there, in Matthew's house and Zacchaeus' house, in this tavern and that, with Mary Magdalene and her friends and anyone else who cares to join in.
This is what it looks like when God's in charge. This is how the campaign gets under way--and YOU are part of it, so celebrate--it's time!
-- NT Wright, Simply Jesus.
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