Easter

We started this blog last Easter. It has almost been a year since we started blogging, and I have found that it is a great way to see how God is working in our lives. When I get discouraged I will review the blog from day one and see what God has done. It is very obvious that God is interacting in our lives.

So, tomorrow is Easter. For my first seventeen years on this celestial ball Easter was a second class Christmas. Like, come on what do you really get? A few chocolates from a bunny and a good meal with family and maybe a few Easter presents. Christmas seemed so much better because we snacked all day and played with our new toys and wore our new clothes.

When I was 18, I realized that we wouldn't have Christmas without Easter. Easter is not a second rate Christmas, Easter is the Stanley Cup of human history. Yes, I know that Christmas is the celebration on Christ's birth, but if He wouldn't have died on Good Friday and then came back to life on Easter then we wouldn't have any reason to celebrate Christmas. Easter is where Christ fulfilled His calling. He claimed that He came to seek and save that which was lost. He acted upon God the Father's heart and lived a sinless life in order to die. His whole mission was to die. His whole mission was to pay my penalty and your penalty for our sins because we could not pay them ourselves. And why would God want our sins to be paid? Because He created us to be in an intimate relationship with Him and as law breakers we could not do that. So Jesus paid our penalty in order for us to be in a relationship with the God who created us. The only catch is - God loves us so much that He will not force a relationship upon us. We need to choose it. In order to choose it we need to stop living life our way and start living His way and put our faith and trust into Jesus Christ.

That's the Easter story. Jesus died for us so we could have a relationship with God Almighty.

If Jesus didn't die for our sins then we wouldn't celebrate Christmas because we would have been celebrating the birth of a lunatic - a person who claimed to be God but wasn't.

So that brings us to the tough question. Who is Jesus Christ? Was He a lunatic, a liar, or truly the Son of God who came to seek and to save that which was lost. I have come to my conclusion that Jesus is truly the Son of God. Who is He to you?