Easter weekend!!! How exciting to be at this landmark of the church year - the year period!! When death became life - when our doomed condition was blown apart and new hope was born!! When hopelessness was infused with hope!! When our fears were shown to be hollow and the life we have in Christ can be seen as richer than anything we could have imagined.
But first...the beatings, the wrongful charges and death sentence. Without the grim side to Easter, the resurrection loses its significance. Without weighing the cost, our salvation can be cheapened, taken for granted, and we live impoverished.
First, the purity is made filthy...Jesus never did anything one, single thing wrong. Never had one single impure, filthy or sinful thought. imagine that! And yet our collective filth was piled on that pure head...into that sinless heart. And he experienced utter separation from his Abba (Daddy) Father ---but with good reason - an everlastingly good reason! so we would never have to be separated from our Abba God again!
without the pain, Easter loses its lustre.
But without the resurrection, Jesus' death was just an unfortunate miscarriage of justice!!
So dig in this weekend. Live it all. or rather, relive it all. Dig deeply into the roots of our faith...and thereby grow in gratitude for our Father who loved us so passionately that he could not bear eternity with our being separated from Him!! Bask in that love - as you reflect on all it cost the Trinity.
Beloved.
yes, you!
Live in the glory of the entire Easter story.
and be changed.
Hosanna! Hallelujah!
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