Death was Arrested: Living in the Now

The mind is a powerful thing.  In our minds, we create sovereign worlds of imagination and write scripts of what should be. Then, when our imagined scenarios of life collide with the reality of what is, we often find ourselves trapped in a sad world of “what if’s” and "should be’s.”  Sadly, we often miss the joy that God has given you because it’s not what we envisioned.  As Jesus rode into Jerusalem, the people imagined him to be the liberating king who would free them from Rome.  Jesus was indeed a king, just not the one they envisioned.  Sadly, many missed the joy of the now, because they just couldn’t see how God was at work.