The Baptism of Jesus

What took place on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection?

We baptized Jesus on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection.

To the pot of his baptism, ingredients were added. The ingredients added to the pot tell us about creature and Creator. We added the bitter herbs of torture, suffering, killing and death. Jesus did not do likewise. Unlike us, Jesus did not add the bitter herbs of revenge, retaliation or retribution in response to our contribution. Instead, he added the sweet elixir of forgiveness . Forgiveness is the elixir that sweetened the pot .

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Pour the sweet syrup of love into your circumstances to dilute their toxicity
Pour the sweet syrup of love into your circumstances to dilute their toxicity

How do we dilute the toxicity of our circumstances?

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The Gardens of the New Eden
The Gardens of the New Eden

Armageddon is here and now. We are not fighting for something in the hereafter. The battle is now. Now is the time to join Jesus in the scrum at the line of scrimmage in the Valley of Tears facing off against Evil toe to toe, cheek to jowl. Christianity is not a sport for spectators. Christians partake in the fray.

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What is lacking in the afflictions of Christ?
What is lacking in the afflictions of Christ?

Jesus poured the sweet syrup of forgiveness from the reservoir of love that he held in his most Sacred Heart, through his bloody wounds, and into the Valley of Tears to diute its toxicity in the same way that sugar cubes dilute the bitterness of a cup of bad coffee. Dilution is God's solution to the toxicity of the Valley of Tears.

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The Transfusion of Love
The Transfusion of Love

From his heart, our hearts receive a transfusion of love. The transfusion of love is invigorating. It vivifies us. It brings the dead to life (Luke 15:32) (John 3:3).

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Punctuation Marks: Turning Question marks into Exclamation marks
Punctuation Marks: Turning Question marks into Exclamation marks

His bloody wounds are the punctuation marks that our evil opened in his body. Before we knew what his answer would be to the evil that we did to him, his bloody wounds were question marks. After, they became exclamation points. There was a change in punctuation. The change in punctuation is the good knews of great joy - very good news for us.

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