Why bother Jesus

Why bother having Easter weekend? It’s just a question. I believe in Jesus and God the Father, but who else really does? I was listening to a radio station mock what they’re doing this weekend. One guy sarcastically said “Church”. They all laughed and continued to talk about all the important sports games this weekend. Jesus is not important. Oh sure those hidden inside churches think Jesus is important, but I hate to burst their secret bubbles (clicks), but to the real world, Jesus does not exist.

I love those who say we should get rid of this Christian Easter holiday. Listen dumb ass, it’s time off, who cares why. My point to the church is this: people would rather work than take any time off for Jesus. They hate, loath, despise, and basically don’t care about you (the church) and you’re Jesus. I bet many don’t really know why Easter is a holiday. Many don’t even care or know why Remembrance or Victoria Day exists (Canadian reference here). Oh right Remembrance Day is Black Friday weekend now. Victoria Secret gave us the May long weekend right?

            It’s been a long time since we made up a holiday. Jesus died over 2000 years ago. Queen Victoria died in 1901 (I looked it up on Wikipedia). People argue if Jesus existed. Will people do the same for Queen Victoria in a thousand years? In this country we have people who come here to be Canadian. They want our traditions and freedoms. Those who were born here want to rid us of the vary things non-Canadians covet. No religion and scrap the holidays. Maybe the holidays represent freedom, safety, honor, and remembering on Wikipedia.

            What does God have to say about this touchy subject? In 2 Kings Chapter 22, we find a very interesting discovery. King Josiah is 8 years old. It says he follows the ways of the Lord. It also says that there were churches and priests of God. The best part is that all this time they worshipped and played church without the Bible. This chapter says they found the Bible hidden in the church. I find that is exactly where we are today. We play church, we do traditions like Easter and Christmas, but it’s without the Bible.

            Why bother going to church? Many churches have distorted the Bible to mean just what they want it to. That’s why we have a pile (and I do mean pile) of denominations. That means kiddies that all Christians think the Bible means something different than it originally did. In many ways we say we believe but it’s been too long to know what that means. Who is Jesus and what is he to any of us? Yes I want people to know Jesus but what do I tell them? Which denomination is correct? The real Jesus in the Bible is not welcome in most churches today.

            The cool part of 2 Kings 22 is what happened once they found the Bible. The King (who is 8) realized that the country and church are worshipping God all wrong. Everyone was distorting the real view of God. Josaih tore down all the false idols and teachings and began to read the real Bible. The country and kingdom began to understand why they had church, holidays, and God.

The present world does not know any more what religion is. Why have a holiday for anything that has happened in the past? Why do we have holidays again? Oh right, it’s to honor something important in the past that helped us get where we are today. Is that important? Is it ok to just have a weekend off for something we don’t understand? Will we lose that time off if its meaning goes away? Don’t most of us work on those holidays now anyway?

            The trouble is that Jesus is lumped in with the Queen and wars. We remember they happened (Wikipedia again), but we have no meaning to it. I understand that it’s been too long. My goodness 9/11 was a while ago. Learning from our history is helpful. Is Jesus just a history lesson? In reality, I find humans are forced to repeat the mistakes of the past. We’re not that smart folks. Jesus does mean something more than you think. One day it might be you finding a Bible and reading it. Oh and in that day (maybe Easter weekend) things will change as they did all those years ago for 8 year old king Josaih.

Faith comes alive