October 31 is Reformation Day #381

Reformation Day, October 31st, is a watershed date profoundly affecting western history.In our day we celebrate Halloween. We pay little attention to the more significant events that shook Europe in 1517 and then shaped early America. We tend to play down religion. "It’s a private matter," we say. We want people to keep their religious convictions out of the public square. That was not the case in Martin Luther’s day. He provoked public debate with the organized church on core beliefs.

Those core beliefs had to do with eternity and the life to come. We talk very little about eternity. It’s today that counts. It’s the physical world that’s important not the realm of the spirit. But if we are like Martin Luther we lug around a heavy conscience. We carry a weight of guilt on our backs. How do we find release from these burdens? All the material goodies in the world will not heal our wounded souls.

Reformation Day celebrates the answer Martin Luther rediscovered over four hundred and seventy-five years ago. It has to do with God’s gracious forgiveness received by faith in Jesus Christ. "‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ Says the Lord, ‘Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool’" (Isaiah 1:18).

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