Many years ago when I was still in my teens I used to sing a song called “Let me ride to the wide…Don’t fence me in.” The funeral bands, strangely enough used to play this tune when accompanying the hearse in the procession to the cemetery! They used the same tune for weddings too!
None of us like to be fenced in! We want to be let loose, have freedom to do our own thing!
They put Jesus in the tomb and thought that was the end of everything. But He rose from the dead walked out of the grave and remained on earth in bodily form for forty days. He appeared many times to His friends. He would appear and disappear at will.
In John Masefield’s drama – “The trial of Jesus” there is a striking passage. Longinus, the Roman Centurion in command of the soldiers of the cross returns to the palace. Pilate’s wife beckons to him and begs him to tell her how Jesus died. After hearing the story of the last hours of Jesus, she suddenly asks, “Do you think he’s dead?”
“No, lady” answers Longinus. “I don’t”
“Then, where is he? She asks.
“Let loose in the world, lady, where neither Roman nor Jew can stop his truth.”
It is bewildering to the unbeliever and unenlightened! But it’s a fact. Jesus is alive. Last Sunday we celebrated Easter. In fact every Sunday when we meet to worship the Lord, we are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. He is here in our midst alive forevermore.
Don’t try to fence Him in, let Christ reign unconfined in your life, in the community and in the world.
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