“let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings…” Hebrews 10:22

The occasion was yesterday…Easter! It is, what I consider, the biggest Holy Day of the year! Our Church, like so many around the world, is a collection of different believers and followers in Jesus Christ, grouped into 1 place for the purpose of worshiping Him and serving one another. It had been a BUSY week of preparation. Set up, tear down, assemble, cook, clean and then setup again! And it was all because of Lettuce! Kind of!

Easter observes the occasion of the death of Jesus Christ to pay for mankind’s sins, and His rising from that death in conquering victory. The Holy Day gives His followers reason to gather together to celebrate and rejoice! Until Resurrection Sunday, there was one nasty fact that overlayed all of mankind’s condition. We were sinners, separated from our Creator, and destined to perish forever in a Godless place not even prepared for men in the first place! Easter changed that!

All week long we had been meeting and preparing for something coming. Thursday Communion was a time to remember the sorrow and pain of what sin had cost us…AND God’s Son, Jesus! The pain He suffered because of my ‘sin status’ is unimaginable. Saturday we gathered together to prepare breakfast for Sunday Morning. But even at breakfast on Sunday, there was a sense of anticipation. Soon…the church was packed with Lettuce people!

Let Us! 2 words that corporately unite a group of people under 1 purpose. Those 2 words are used several times in the Bible to unify and move us in a single direction. And what a Joy it was as dozens of people, many we don’t even know, came together to glance at the person of Jesus Christ…the one who called Himself, The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Door and the Great Shepherd! From what I could tell…NONE of us were disappointed!

I have been rescued from a fate WORSE than simply dying and moving into nothingness. And not just me! Anyone who finds Jesus’ hand and grabs on, carries with them a SINCERE heart, FULL of assurance that WE ARE part of HIS STORY! FOREVER! So what do we do about that? The I’s become US and together, we draw near to God in Joy and anticipation of what will come!

Lettuce is an interesting vegetable, as leaf upon leaf overlays one another in orderly fashion…forming one complete unit, all stemming and held together by 1 main core. Which leads me to wonder why no one ever used lettuce as a symbol for ‘The Church!’ Let us gather again on Wednesday night and talk about that!!!