Resurrection

It is never too early to start thinking about Easter. First, it’s Palm Sunday and Jesus entry into Jerusalem and then resurrection Sunday. Our chief concern is not if Jesus arose from the dead but the believer’s view of his and our resurrection.

Between now and Easter Sunday it is a good time to reflect not only on the historical aspect of Easter but its current reality. I hope, in some way between now and Resurrection Sunday, that is what I call Easter, to bring us forward in our thinking.

Perfunctory is a word that comes to mind as we dutifully and even artfully observe this special day. Perfunctory as it may be, it is an important perfunctory. In no way am I demeaning the annual observance of the day we call Easter.

Just the opposite, I am not minimizing the annual celebration but taking us forward until it is personal, until a current reality sets in and we experience resurrection life every day.

Even if the observing of Easter is annual and clothed with rituals and garbed with religious activities, nevertheless, it is remembered. This gives us an opportunity to not only celebrate the event but also the reality of not only the resurrection of Jesus but also our resurrection.

It is entirely inappropriate and demeaning to celebrate the resurrection Jesus and not also celebrate the fact that when Jesus was raised from the dead, we were raised with him.

Between now and the fourth of April we can reflect on both the resurrection of Jesus and what it means to the individual believer.

This is where I think we miss it. We dress up in our finery, sing Christ arose but miss the current reality resurrection affords every man and women.

It is my hope and prayer that we realize more fully the fact, “Jesus was delivered for our offences but was raised for our Justification.” Romans 4:25

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Making Easter more than a day, an event is something we have focus on and which we must give our attention. May you experience resurrection life as you read and contemplate what resurrection really means.