What does Easter mean for you? Does it just mean a reason to have a sugar rush and a lot of chocolate? A reason to have your children search for baskets as you sit back and simply enjoy the treats that were conveniently left over from when you, oh I'm sorry the "Easter Bunny", made the baskets for the kids.
Or does it mean a time to remember the ultimate sacrifice that happened so many years ago when a Father let His Son give His life for all of us. Small insignificant sinful us were the reason that Jesus let himself be killed in the most gruesome of ways. Have you ever really thought about how he was killed not only was he hung on a cross to die but he had a crown of thorns SHOVED on his head, not placed gently as most seem to think but SHOVED on his head. On top of that he was FLOGGED with a cat-o-nine. Now this isn't your have kinky fun in the bedroom with your spouse cat-o-nine, *shudders* no this is a cat-o-nine with pieces of glass, rock, rusted metal, and bone all throughout it making sure that every lash pierced the skin and ripped it open. Now after all of this happens he is made to carry his own heavy wooden cross through the city through a jeering crowd out to the spot where he will ultimately die, he has most likely had no food since the night before and nothing to drink, he's bleeding heavily from the crown and the flogging and has this dead weight from the cross on his back but still he goes through all of this and then has his hands and feet pierced with NINE INCH LONG NAILS securing him to the cross which is then lifted into the air hanging him there between two thieves as if he was no better than them. As if THE KING OF KINGS was no better than TWO THIEVES! Now I am always amazed at how he forgives one and tells him that he will have a place in heaven. I think that is so amazing! It also amazes me how he cries out "MY GOD MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME!" All that happens on Good Friday, why is it called good causes me endless curiosity, before he states a simple line "it is finished" that is it. He gives up his soul and dies. That is it the people think so much for the Great Jesus. So much for the Great King of the Jews. They are smirking and some trying to figure out why the things that had happened when his soul departed happened but for the most part they went about their lives while his friends and family prepared his body and buried it before the Jewish Sabbath came. Now comes the GOOD part. Now comes the TRUE REASON to celebrate the EASTER SEASON. It is not some silly bunny delivering eggs, I mean why have a bunny deliver eggs anyway, they don't lay eggs. It is not the chocolate, though even I admit I love the chocolate and the reason to eat as much sweets and sugar as possible. No it is the reason that happened THREE DAYS after the Death of JESUS. The day he DEFEATED the hold the DEATH and SIN had over man kind. The day he won the right to claim us as his own and save us from the power of sin and the devil the day he said 'you can't have them because they have been reborn in my name.' The day that JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD!!!!!! That is right He is BACK! Death can't keep HIM down! The Devil didn't stand a chance of holding HIM back. No one who claims JESUS CHRIST as their LORD AND SAVIOR in heart, mind, body, and soul will ever have to fear the devil for he has no chance against us. For JESUS will always stand against the devil and his horde beside us, before us, and behind us. We are always protected because of that day so many years ago that Jesus won the fight against Sin and Death and ROSE FROM THE DEAD! HALLELUJAH!
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