To me Easter is the day we celebrate the fulcrum of all of
mankind’s hope—all our hope rests on the death and resurrection of Jesus the
messiah. While I don’t really like the name Easter or believe that today was
when Jesus arose from the dead, I do love the fact that as families, groups,
and for the most part as a nation, we pause and celebrate Jesus’ victory over
sin, Satan, and death.
It’s easy to get lost to the meaning of the celebration
among all of the traditional festivities. If you take a minute to think about
what all of it is actually about and consider the greater ramifications that have
much more than echoed but reverberated louder and louder through the pages of
time, then you should get a chill down your spine, a tear of joy in your eye,
and a feeling of immeasurable love in your heart.
At the time of Jesus crucification and death, the grief
unbearable. Here was the man who the hope of existence rested. He was a man
unlike any other, he walked in perfect harmony with the footsteps of his
Father. I don’t think that we can fully fathom the type of man that Jesus was.
To just look in his eyes must have been like looking into a tidal wave of love.
Can you imagine the way he would have spoken, to hear his voice? When he died,
for a few days, it seemed like that hope was lost—buried beneath the hate,
violence, and death he unjustly incurred for being perfect. When he died the earth
shook and the sky went dark.
But, he did not stay dead. God raised him from the dead and
with him all of us who’s hope is in him—he arose and us with him into a new
life incorruptible. The record of our wrong is no longer held against us but
pardoned completely. Easter is the day we celebrate the greatest victory and
triumph.
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