We want God to be available 24/7. If God is God, we reason, God can do anything and everything. Further, if God is love, as the Bible tells us, then God should be "there" (here) for us...available. Always available.
But it doesn’t seem to work that way. Maybe because this approach attempts to turn us into God and God into our lackey--instead of our Lord.
No, the message of the Bible seems to be quite the opposite: that we are here to make ourselves available to God...to be God's servants, God's hands, feet and heart, God's presence in the world.
With this message comes a promise: If we do this, we will discover that God is already available to us. Which, in a roundabout way, starts us back at the beginning. God is, in fact, available 24/7.
The Christian's walk is about something even deeper. It's about making ourselves available to God above all others. It teaches that as we do this, we come to see and experience God helping us sort out how and where to make ourselves available in the world today.
Holy Week is all about Jesus Christ being available to God above all other availabilities. Easter is about the promise of what happens because God is available to us.
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