When I woke up this morning I was over come with emotion. I felt so small in comparison to the enormity of the significance of the day. I realized that today millions of Christians were waking up and would prepare to head out to corporate gatherings of believers to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. The world wide observation of the most important day in the life of Christians everywhere was under way.
Even though our skies were gray and dreary, my thoughts were of that first Easter morning. I believe that when Christ died on the cross, and the skies were dark and foreboding, that it was the bleakest of all days – ever! So, it only stands to reason that the first Resurrection Morning was bright and picture perfect! It was the greatest day!!!!
I think back to the handful of people who rushed to tomb where Jesus had been laid to rest just a couple of days before. Both the men and the women who arrived there were met with disbelief. They saw the man, Jesus, die on the cross. They saw him be taken down and placed in the tomb and buried. Their loss was overwhelming…he was dead! Now, his body was gone! If confusion and heartache wasn’t at it’s height before, it was now.
Then, Jesus revealed himself – ALIVE! Imagine it…ALIVE! I know that my own father passed away due to cancer…he was buried. If he revealed himself to me just a few days later, I would have been beside myself because dead is dead. You could not have kept me quiet or kept me from running to tell of the miraculous resurrection! But this was Jesus, the Son of God was ALIVE, after suffering the most shameful and gruesome death known to mankind – It was a Hallelujah kinda day! Eternity was forever changed.
So, even though I am small in comparison to the significance of the day…this day was for me! It was for you! Regardless of our perceived insignificance, Jesus did it all for each of us – individually.
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