Jesus Christ Superstar…heaven on my mind.

My dad loved this movie. I remember him playing the album on a stereo console record player. It would sound all through our home every Easter in my early childhood. One of my favorite songs was Heaven on their Minds…sung from Judas’s point of view. Now fifty years later, I get it so much now. The story of Jesus never changed but yet in one musical with a hippy bus orchestra, the story is still simple and unchanged. We are all Judas in some way, we judge, we assume righteousness, we assume we know better than the Son of Man. In one moment Judas realize he was part of God’s plan all along. It’s hard to remember that God is all knowing. Between the judgements, opinions filled in our daily social media, work spaces, and news. I’m reminded that it is all smoke and mirrors in God’s ultimate plan and that through confession I clean my heart of Satan’s social distortion and confusion.