Wow! What an exhaustingly wonderful week. From the lowest of lows to the highest high ever, my emotions have fallen and peaked during the past week. It has been a powerful time of remembering the truth about my Savior.
"Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again. Then they remembered his words," (Luke 24:6b-8 NIV).
One of the most powerful Easter services I've ever experienced was when I was in youth group at church. We planned the sunrise service with the big help of our teacher, Dick Sommerlot. Using the local county park we erected three crosses so the sun would rise behind them. It was a cold morning but the beautiful worship and fellowship in the park that morning is etched in my mind, nearly 50 years later.
The Resurrection of Jesus is where our hope lives. He promised He would rise on the third day and He did. He walked again with the disciples to give them understanding of all He had taught them. Now it was becoming clear to them. He opened their eyes to see and their hearts to love.
"Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things," (Luke 24:45-48 NIV).
May our minds be open to all that Christ lived for, died for, and rose again for. May it be clear to us... it was for you and me.
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