Scripture
Luke 24:32
Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Psalms 31:2,6,12-13,15-17,25; Hebrews 4:14-16,5:7-9; John 18:1-19:42
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In one of Gary Larson’s “Far Side” cartoons, a group of insects are gathered together at a party. One of the bugs is saying to another,
“Think of it, Ed! The ‘Insects’ class contains almost 1,000 families and over 750,000 species. But I still can’t shake the feeling that we’re just a bunch of bugs.”
One wonders if the cartoon hits a raw nerve for some people. The class called “Homo Sapiens” (us human beings) contains six billion members who belong to hundreds of cultures and ethnic groups. We laugh, we love, we work, we create, yet judging from the number of shattered lives and broken homes, too many among us seem to think of ourselves as insignificant creatures without purpose: just a bunch of bugs.1
This is not a particularly easy time to be alive. As we plod through our every-day existence, we find much to meet our physical needs and wants, but very little that speaks to us deep-down: spiritually. Often, with seemingly…
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