I love Easter and the promise that it holds. As
insignificant as I am in this world, it stretches my thinking to imagine how
significant I am to God, who died on the cross for me and awaits the time that
I will meet him face to face. What a glorious existence that will be. The tomb is empty and I have hope in the
promise of God as my future. I always
have such a knot in my stomach on Good Friday as I try to contemplate the heaviness
of this day and what it must have been like to be Jesus. What is must have been
like to be his disciples. What it must have been like to be his followers and
know the truth of his majesty and to watch him die such a death as crucifixion
on a cross. The mocking, the torment, the blood that he shed. The ending. It is finished. The darkness. The earth’s
shaking ….
And then I am once again I am thrown into a tailspin of how our
world could turn this significance into eggs and a bunny.
I have lived most of my existence knowing that God is my
savior and my friend. I didn’t always live that way (college… ugh!) but I
always knew it. In the past few years, through sadness, I have lived my life in
depression and isolation, having no one to really talk to who could ever
understand, so instead I tucked it down deep and carried on with life. However,
in the past 8 months, I have seen and experienced God’s hand lead me and push
me and sustain me as only He could. I
would say in the last 2 months He is restoring my joy as only He can. He is
giving me light at the end of the tunnel as only He can. He is saving me in
ways as only He can. People often question God and His plan and his timing, or
even His existence. I suppose that is faith, the belief in things unseen.
However, my life is a living breathing example of God’s grace, love and existence.
After you’ve been touched by this truth, love and experience of God’s love in a
real, true way, there is no going back.
All of that, I suppose is to say, Happy Easter. Do not let
this day pass without recognizing the significance of what God has done for us. He loved us long before he formed us in our mother’s womb. He loves us enough
to die for us. Just as important, He
loves us enough to save us a place with him in eternity. That is a promise
worth holding on to.
