Spring Is Exciting!
The old story that April showers bring May flowers, is evident in all of creation around us at this time of year. What should be just as equally evident, is that Easter resurrection should bring post‑Easter excitement! Whenever something happens in this world, there is always a cause‑and‑effect relationship. There is action, and re‑action.
The action of God in bringing life after death for Jesus Christ, was but the promise of life after death for all of us who will take the news in faith. The re‑action to Easter, however, was varied. Some thought it was a hoax. Others reacted with fear. Some said that of course it was impossible, and therefore continued to live on in the drab, dreary world of the expected. But, fortunately, the disciples reacted with excitement. They had seen the Lord! They believed, and they went everywhere telling the good news that Jesus was alive again!
How do you react to Easter? Are you glad it's over so that you can get back to normal? Do you think of the miracle of life after death as something that is impossible, and therefore, pass it off as religious frenzy? But, stop and think! Wouldn't it be great, just for once, to stop acting and reacting as though everything were cut and dried?
In God's world of nature, excitement is bursting out all over. The robins announce it every morning. The trees and the bushes are literally scurrying with frenzy to get their leaves and buds out in the open again. The long winter of death is gone, and the resurrection of life in the earth has come once more. Why do we live as skeptics in such an exciting world? Why do we limit the power of the Creator, by the dimensions of our own tiny brains?
Jesus Christ arose from the grave, just as surely as new life comes to the trees. And because Jesus Christ arose, thank God, I can believe that new life is possible for me too, not only after death, but in the real present!
The action of God in bringing life after death for Jesus Christ, was but the promise of life after death for all of us who will take the news in faith. The re‑action to Easter, however, was varied. Some thought it was a hoax. Others reacted with fear. Some said that of course it was impossible, and therefore continued to live on in the drab, dreary world of the expected. But, fortunately, the disciples reacted with excitement. They had seen the Lord! They believed, and they went everywhere telling the good news that Jesus was alive again!
How do you react to Easter? Are you glad it's over so that you can get back to normal? Do you think of the miracle of life after death as something that is impossible, and therefore, pass it off as religious frenzy? But, stop and think! Wouldn't it be great, just for once, to stop acting and reacting as though everything were cut and dried?
In God's world of nature, excitement is bursting out all over. The robins announce it every morning. The trees and the bushes are literally scurrying with frenzy to get their leaves and buds out in the open again. The long winter of death is gone, and the resurrection of life in the earth has come once more. Why do we live as skeptics in such an exciting world? Why do we limit the power of the Creator, by the dimensions of our own tiny brains?
Jesus Christ arose from the grave, just as surely as new life comes to the trees. And because Jesus Christ arose, thank God, I can believe that new life is possible for me too, not only after death, but in the real present!
posted by Francis Geo. Guither at 8:39 AM
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