Resurrection Sunday

I was recently challenged by a Master Sergeant in my shop to consider that Easter is a secular holiday—where Resurrection Sunday is a Holy Day for God’s Community. Since then, I’ve been very conscious about engaging folks with a verbal greeting related to Resurrection Sunday vice a happy Easter. The distinction might be subtle, perhaps lost on many, but I’m convinced that a people, a culture, or a community, and what their priorities and values are, can be determined through a study of their language. I feel that the Community of God is called to be distinct from the world, and this distinction should be as recognizable in our language as in our actions. Of course, language constantly shifts, and the Community must constantly develop new language (that really means the same thing) as the world seizes our words and robs them of power through applications apart from the working of God in our lives.

Conversely, the worldly colloquialization of many words spiritual in nature provides many instances where the Word is present yet unrecognized in the speech of many who truly perceive not (or care not) of what they speak. May God give me boldness and tact, wisdom and disdain of self, insight and recklessness, and an awareness of His working in every situation to act in all situations in ways that bring glory to Him.

Semper Fi, Jon G.