What A Day!!

He personally carried our sins
    in his body on the cross
so that we can be dead to sin
    and live for what is right.
By his wounds
    you are healed.

1 Peter 2:24 

 

I've lived through a number of years of Good Fridays and the one statement I've heard over and over is "It may be Friday, but SUNDAY'S a-comin!"  And it's true, Easter Sunday is the celebration of Christ's resurrection.  

 

A number of years ago, I was attending the 102 birthday of a wonderful lady.  She was spry, witty, and wasn't afraid to say what was on her mind.  Quite a few of her relatives and friends had gathered to celebrate her special day, but when she came into the room and everyone (including me) shouted "Happy Birthday" she shook her cane and in her loud gravelly voice said over the racket, "BE Quiet!  Don't come here celebrating my birthday!  Y'all have NO IDEA what I went through to get here, so sit down and be quiet!" She had a very valid point, none of us had any clue what she had endured to reach 102 years of age.

 

And yet the same concept applies to Easter as well.  If we become so "glory-eyed" about Easter that we sanitize all that Jesus had to endure on our behalf, (His arrest, His trials, His torture, His crucifixion) then we will discount the price Jesus paid for our sin.  When we forget what He went through for us, then Easter becomes just another day with pretty new clothes, and a tasty lunch.

 

Remember, once chapter does not a story make!