"Excuse me sir," Mary asks, "Have you seen my Lord?" The gardner hesitates, then says with a smile, "Mary, my dear, it is I".
Two friends trudge along a dusty highway, their faces drawn. A stranger suddenly appears, walking beside them, "why the long faces my friends?" he asks. Incredulous, they respond, "have you not heard? The one thought to be the Messiah is dead!"
"Don't you know?" He says with a sigh, "The prophets spoke of this happening all along, for only through my death can you ever have life."
The waves lap against the side of Simon Peter's fishing boat. A man cries from the shore, "Have you caught any fish?" "No sir," Peter replies, "we've been fishing all day and haven't caught a thing!"
"Of course," the man says, "you haven't caught a fish, for I have made you to be fishers of men".
Is this really the Lord?!!
Victorious over death, conquering King, risen Messiah, this is HE?
Make no mistake, the gardener is KING. The traveler is LORD. The fisherman is SAVIOR of the world.
Death has no sting, hell has no victory, the wrath of God has been satisfied for all time! The quiet gardener sits on HIS THRONE. The dusty traveler REIGNS ON HIGH. And the fisherman? He is LORD of the hearts of men.
Be not fooled, my dear friends, for one day every knee will bow in heaven and earth. With a great shout and a sword in His mouth, He will proclaim: "I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, I AM THE LORD GOD AND THERE IS NO OTHER.
Salvation alone belongs to the KING.
