Hear O Isreal: the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
-Deuteronomy 6:4 NIV
And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.” O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit. Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!” “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD.”
-Jeremiah 16:18-21 RSV
I hear this in Samuel Jackson’s voice:
“…they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations…and they shall know that my name is the LORD.”
It’s the night before Christ rose from the dead. On this night, Mary and his loved ones thought they would never listen to his voice again. I imagine they went to sleep heavy with exhaustion from watching him die on the cross and burying him the day before. Not a contented sleep, but the weighted kind that feels like its own death. The next day their bodies and spirits will feel reborn along with the risen Christ, but they don’t know that tonight. Tonight is only darkness.
Tomorrow the Lord will be heard.
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