Christ is Risen!
“Christ is Risen!” What joy it must have been to all who heard those words … after the initial shock, that is. How they longed to believe it but everyone knows that death means finality. One does not walk out of the grave after being cruelly murdered. It wasn’t long, though, before Jesus appeared to His followers proving that indeed He was alive and He would continue living so that they could have uninterrupted fellowship with Him.
This week, I was thinking how the focus is so often put on Christ’s death and resurrection but, to me, what really proved His great love is the suffering He endured before He died. Had He simply died of a heart attack, for instance, and come back to life, I’m not sure the impact would have been the same. Sure, it would have still been a miracle but when you think that He chose to suffer, to be cruelly tortured and then sentenced to a painful death and the reason He chose that was so we could spend eternity with Him, that is what is truly amazing.
Today, I am thanking God for His love. I praise Him for His willingness to die for me, and I pray that I will be faithful to live for Him all my days. If He never does another thing for me, I will still never be able to repay everything He’s already done but I want to die trying.
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