Posted on 03/28/2018 9:11:58 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
This is what Easter means to me: life from death and life evermore
I look at my life before Christ and I am struck by the fact that it doesn’t seem like my life. I was born again on Palm Sunday in 1980. I was thirty years old. That has been thirty-eight years ago. When I was first saved, I mourned for all the years I had spent wasting my life trying to do it on my own. I remember praying and asking God to give me as many years to serve Him as I had wasted denying Him. Now, that is just one of the answered prayers in my life.
From the first day I accepted Jesus as my personal Saviour, I have never denied Him and standing on the faith He has given me, I never will. Have I always served Him? Yes. Have I always served Him well? He will be the judge. Have I ever fallen short of what He would have me be? Yes, constantly, consistently, and often consciously. Just as the greatest sinner and the greatest saint, I will stand or fall based on His grace.
For me, memories from my childhood. Easter Egg hunts, the original 10 Commandments and Gone With the Wind on TV and of course Easter Sunday and having to get dressed up for Church. Very nice memories.
As an adult, it has deeper meaning. No more marshmallow peeps hidden behind the couch or coloring Easter Eggs (our son is too old for that now). But, the true meaning of Christ’s sacrifice for us all. Mel Gibson’s Passion is the best representation of the last days of Christ — I defer to my wife who is the expert. It is an extremely violent movie but very accurate and a “must see” to appreciate the gift that was given to us.
——insert “Jesus sees his shadow and there are six more weeks of winter” joke here——
And it would be a Holy shadow.
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