Why Easter?

The Easter Season is here again. Once again the world's focus upon symbols rather than substance continues to distract many from the real meaning of the Season. In a day of terrible tragedy and bad news, it is good to have a time we can be reminded of some really good news. A time we can remember the death He died and the sacrifice He made for our sins during that first Easter Season. A time we can recall that the good news of the resurrection of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, is still the very essence of the Christian gospel.

Easter is also a time to remember God's answer to the riddle of man's mortality. A time to reaffirm that a true and spiritually satisfying answer to man's perpetual quest for immortality can only be found at that empty tomb.

It is a time to again assert that the resurrection story is the most well documented fact of history. More than five hundred eye witnesses saw Christ alive during the forty day period following His resurrection. They were surely thrilled to have their eternal hope confirmed by His resurrection. But by faith the contemporary true believer finds the same joy in the real Easter Story - the gospel record of Christ's victory over death, hell and the grave.

He understands that through true repentance and faith he can also have eternal life. The risen Christ is the Christian's blessed hope. When we face death, the common denominator of all mortals, what other hope would suffice? Our quest for immortality joyfully ends at that empty tomb where an angel once cried, "He is not here, He is risen!"

Easter serves to remind all of us who are saved by His grace that He is our personal Living Saviour. We are once again eternally assured that because He lives we will live with Him eternally.

Easter also offers a special opportunity for anyone who has not yet truly repented of their sins and placed their absolute and utter trust in the resurrected Christ, to do so. What better time to discover the.-real joy of knowing you have eternal life in the Christ of Easter?

Pastor John White