Me: What will Easter mean to you?

Prodigal: Yes, Easter and what it means, will give you answers.

This is from the book If I Should Die Before I Live by Joe LoMusio

If I were to ask you to describe Easter without using any words, you could only use punctuation marks, which punctuation mark would you choose to describe this Easter for yourself? Maybe this Easter is a comma for you. It makes you stop, pause, think, and listen, but that’s about it. Perhaps today is a downer–a big bold period. You thought you’d feel excited, but instead it seems to be more like an empty ritual. You feel like you’re not on the inside, but on the outside…an onlooker.

It was a day when life felt like a period for Jesus’ disciples. He was dead. He was buried. And end to expectations. But wait–news of an empty tomb…the period is no longer a period, it’s a question mark. That’s worse than a period. Now they’re beginning to doubt. Where is He? They’re perplexed. The guards are gone, the stone is rolled away. He is not there. And if not there, where?

An angel speaks, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen, Remember how He spoke to you while He was in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and how He must be crucified, and the third day He must rise again.” Of course they remembered! The periods are gone. The question marks are removed. There is one massive exclamation point!

That’s what Easter is all about….an exclamation of gratitude and of praise for the resurrection of Jesus Christ and for the salvation His victory over death brought to us.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org