Easter 2010 Journey to the Tomb
Written by Gary Piper
Scripture quotes have been taken from the New English Translation of the Bible. For more information, a free download of the NET Bible or to purchase a hardcopy please go to www.bible.org.
Many times we celebrate significant Jesus Holidays without thinking about how the happenings in Jesus’ life so long ago can impact our lives today. For Christmas we celebrate through the giving of gifts, family dinners, worship services, festive decoration, and Christian decorations. For Easter our celebrations begin with Lent, then we worship on Ash Wednesday, then we worship on Palm Sunday, then we worship on Maundy Thursday, then we worship on Good Friday, then on Easter Sunday we begin with Sunrise worship services, Sunrise breakfast, then later we worship one last time where we see people we rarely every see in church and everyone displays their new spring wardrobe. And somewhere sandwiched in on our Easter Sunday Worship on behalf of the Easter Bunny we hide Easter Eggs and give children Easter Baskets.
But Easter is more than all that…
Easter is more than just remembering and celebrating Jesus’ sacrifice for us!
Easter is more than just celebrating God’s ultimate gift of eternal life!
Easter is about transforming our lives in the here and now!
Easter is about journeying down a new road!
Easter is about the dying of our flesh and the resurrection of our spiritual lives!
Easter is about the coming of age of God’s kingdom in our lives!
Easter is about Jesus’ life in you!
Easter is about taking the things of this life and giving them eternal significance!