A Most Important Event

Its Easter season again; and it’s time for sober reflections (“stations of the Cross”), joyous celebrations (resurrection Sunday), evangelism campaigns (“Let’s-Go-A-Fishings, “Walk-With-Jesus”, etc.) ... and controversies (“this whole Easter thing is a pagan festival to an ancient dawn goddess”). Yes, Easter has them all.

Our duty as Believers, however, is to make sure we’re not swept up in the wave of customs and religious traditions that have – over the centuries –stripped this most important event of its powerful message.

The Easter season is a commemoration of the most important event of all of humanity and of eternity. It’s an occasion in real time when Divinity took on Humanity; the day when the One “who only has immortality” (1Ti 6:16) took on mortality.

That is why the Gospel writers devote a disproportionately large percentage of their works to it. Of Mark’s sixteen chapters on the life of Christ, six are devoted to just these seven days.

Paul, the apostle who wrote most of the Epistles, also places his focus of Christ’s life on the Cross. He mentions next to nothing about the nativity, gives scanty references to Christ’s teachings, but places all his focus on the CROSS.

He says, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially His death on the Cross. 1Co 2:2 (GNB) 

The Cross and the Resurrection is all that Christianity is about. And in this season we get to pay an especial attention to the events. Hallelujah!

 “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” – Php 3:10.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN