HE HAS RISEN!!!

“On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.  They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightening stood beside them.  In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?  He is not here; he has risen!”  (Luke 24: 1-5)

This story should bring a smile, joy, goose bumps, absolute exhilaration!!   Our Jesus is alive!!! 

This morning when I let our dog outside I just wanted to scream at the top of my lungs to our entire neighborhood, “JESUS IS ALIVE!!  HE HAS RISEN!!!!”   As an adult I feel like I appreciate Easter more now than as a kid.  But then again, as my relationship with Christ deepens, I am more and more appreciative of the magnitude of the resurrection. 

We are all sinners and if Jesus had not come to take our place, we would all be destined for eternal suffering.  There’s just no way around it.  But God humbled Himself to take the form of a man, walk this Earth and ultimately suffer and die on a cross.  The spotless lamb took every sin upon Himself and became the blood atonement for our sins.  It should have been us on that cross.  It should have been us to suffer and die but Jesus did it for us.

But the story of Easter is partly about the death and more about His resurrection.  You see, if Jesus would have just stayed in the tomb then the God we serve would be no different than the other gods of this world.  But our God is not like any others.  Our God is the one and only.  Our God is the Way, the Truth and the Life.  Our God is ALIVE!!! 

REJOICE!!!!  We serve a risen God.  He did not stay in the tomb.  Instead, He fulfilled the prophesy and rose three days later. 

HE HAS RISEN!

HE HAS RISEN INDEED!