Just a brief note to remind one and all that the most important day of the year begins in exactly fifty minutes from the time I started writing this. It is the day when we specifically set aside time to remember that God became one of us, suffered our rejection, died on a cross, and rose from the dead. Our celebration of Easter, of more descriptively, firstfruits or Resurrection Sunday, begins tomorrow. God loves us enough to accomplish salvation for all those who will confess their sins, turn from them and follow Jesus Christ, believing in Him and trusting in Him alone for salvation. You are free to disbelieve, but the consequences of being wrong are more severe than the consequences of making an error and believing in Jesus and finding the whole thing to be false. The non-believer has to face the possibility of Judgment and eternal separation from God (the source of all good) in Hell. The believer, should he be wrong, faces only the same meaningless result that comes at the end of life which the atheist promises, a cessation of life, and a life having missed what may have been a few pleasures (although one might argue whether these selfish pursuits were indeed pleasures) and having lived a life in joy, hope, and service to others. Should that life end with no resurrection for ourselves we will not be around to care about it. But should we disbelieve and be wrong and this life end with resurrection and judgement we will find ourselves most miserable.
Our hope, our joy, our life is made meaningful and complete through faith in our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, He is Risen...
He is Risen indeed!
In Christ and on the Shepherd's Path,
Mark
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