Christians will soon celebrate their most holy day. Greater than the gift of God’s son as the birth of a child. Greater than the death of God’s son on the cross at Calvary.
We will celebrate life.
Come Easter Sunday morning, we will lift our voices in praise, circling the globe with the most wonderful words, “He is risen. He is risen, indeed!”
Matthew first tells us: And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. (Matthew 28:7)
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; (Mark 16:6a)
He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, (Luke 24:6a)
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. (John 2:22)
This is the difference between Jesus, the Messiah, and those who claimed His title. He is risen. This is why Christians meet together to worship on the first day of the week instead of the seventh. This is why Jesus was born and why He died. This is what He prophesied: I have told you; how he spake unto you; he had said this.
This was why the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible. I love how John explains why he wrote:
But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. (John 20:31)
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:13)
Mark tells us that hearing was not always believing, even among those who followed Him: And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. (Mark 16:11)
Tell someone today about Jesus. Find the words to express the faith held in His ability to show the truth of God before mankind. Enrich lives.
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