Easter is the day we
celebrate the events that changed all of ETERNITY! Easter the Greatest day that
ever dawn, from the greatest story ever told of the great life ever
lived…Jesus has risen and he is alive working among his people.
Easter
is a great day of celebration. Yes, Jesus suffered greatly under the passion of
his purpose in going to Jerusalem. Yes, he struggled under the weight of doubt
and fear of his disciples. Yes, Jesus pleaded with his friends to be with him
as he experienced great sorrow and grief. Yes, Jesus was flogged and beaten to
the point that his intestines were exposed and his flesh was torn from his
body. Yes, he was exhausted from the lake of sleep for 48 hours and a illegal
trial in the middle of the night. Yes, Jesus was forced to carry a wooden cross
over the bleeding flesh through dirty, dusty, and crowded streets of jeers and
curses. Yes, they took nail spikes and drove them through his flesh and feet in
order to pin him to the cross. Yes, Jesus was naked, humiliated, and lifted up
for all to see and treated as a criminal. Yes, Jesus was rejected and insulted.
AND YES, because of our sin…Jesus was forced to be separated from His father
God which was the hardest part of all…all these facts are important and
devastating.
BUT,
the most amazing thing is why he willing offered himself as a sacrifice. This
was not another execution…but that Jesus was willing to take the blame. Jesus
was willing to be our Sacrificial Lamb. Jesus takes everyone one a journey to
the Cross… He did all this because He LOVES US….HE LOVES ME…HE LOVES YOU!
You see the “what” of
the tomb is that it is there that Jesus put all death, destruction, and sin to
rest…the “why” of the tomb is because “God so loved!”
John 3:16, “For God So
Loved!” God didn’t just love us…He SO loved us. God’s love is agape love. Agape
is selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, the highest of the types of love.
1 John 4:11 states: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Max Lucado tries to capture the depth of Jesus’ love in with these words: “He’d
rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.” The hardship of life is transformed by the "why" of the death, burial, and
resurrection of Jesus. The "what" of Death…the "why" is Deep Love.
You Know I Love ya...and Easter is the greatest day ever! Don
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