Easter Sunday will be the grand celebration of the start of a new season in the life of the Christian Church. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead means that there is a change, a shift in our journey with God.
Lent marked a time when we walked with Christ to the cross. Day by day, we paused to do some introspection, to offer prayers of forgiveness, and to daily make sacrifices, in remembering the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness.
In church we refrained from saying “Hallelujah”, but Easter marks a change in our outlook on life. With Christ’s victory over death there is new life, a new way of living, and it touches our relationship with God, our neighbors, and our world. The cross purchased an unending, infinite amount of grace and love for every daughter and son of the Christ follower. The empty grave reminds us that Christ conquered death. The silence was over. Death has no sting and because of this reality we live our lives differently.
My prayer for each of us is that we would live life differently because of Easter. May the resurrection of Christ cause us to be “Easter people” who portray a love for God, for our neighbor, and for our world as we seek to make disciples of those that don’t know Him.
See you on Easter Sunday at 9:45am as we celebrate our new lives because of Christ’s resurrection.