Happy Resurrection Day!

I hope this Easter finds everyone well, surrounded by loved ones, and just truly blessed. This is a day when we celebrate God's love for us, that He sent His Son, Jesus, to die on a cross and to be raised from the dead as atonement for our sins. This is what the Christian message is all about, if Easter never happened, then we would have no hope, no joy, so Savior, no salvation. Think of the faith of the Israelites, the hope that they had in a coming Messiah, the joy they had in their hope. How much more should our joy be in the fulfillment of God's promise. This is God showing His love for us. Here is what C.S. Lewis had to say about it.

 "God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing – or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God – the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves." 

Hallelujah! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!

Be blessed this week.