Easter is one of my favorite times of the year - the promise of new life and the deep spiritual meaning of Resurrection Sunday. This year, it is even more meaningful for me.
Think about Jesus' disciples on the Friday of the crucifixion. They had watched their HOPE die a horrible death on a cross. Their lives were quite possibly in danger. They had nothing. They had walked away from everyone and everything in their lives - for a Man who who was lying in a tomb. I can feel their agony - their grief - and their absolute and total hopelessness.
But - SUNDAY IS COMING! In their despair, they do not know that Sunday is coming. They do not understand the joy they will feel. They do not see that hopelessness will become a deep and abiding faith.
Can you imagine what they must have felt the day they saw the resurrected Jesus for the first time? Where they were so very low - they now soared...there are no words for the heights they will reach...Jesus is ALIVE!
This Easter season - I feel the hope anew. Not only the hope of everything that Jesus has promised - eternal life, forgiveness of sins, peace that passes anything man can imagine - but now, for the first time in a long, long time - I feel the hope of life, and health, and contentment with who I am.
Sunday is COMING!
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