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Sunday Psalms:
I entrust my spirit into your hand. 
Rescue me, 
Lord, 
for 
you 
are 
a 
faithful God.
Psalms 31:5 NLT
Jesus had drunk from the cup he so desperately didn't want to taste on Friday.
He not only stared into the abyss, he stepped into it. 
He submitted himself to death for us. 
Because Love. 
Love was his mission and calling and we, his world, his people, are the reason for his love. 
The loved. 
Beloved. 

And he was rescued. 
Death became Life
Darkness became Light
Love won.
God's Love somehow defeated death and darkness in the person and body of Jesus. 

And that is the hope that we now hold, that death and darkness in us has been defeated, and will be defeated, not by us and our actions or goodness, but by Jesus's actions and goodness, and the power of God's Love. 
Love that will pull us through death to life too, love that will extinguish all that is dark in us, love that both has already won, and will win. 
Today in the now and the not yet of Resurrection, we can echo David's words:
I entrust my spirit into your hand. 
Rescue me, 
Lord, 
for 
you 
are 
a 
faithful God.
#easter
#sunday
#lovewins

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