Happy Easter - 2009
April 12th, 2009 by ComputerBob
If you look up the word “Easter” at Dictionary.com, the very first definition that it displays, says the following: “an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.”
While that definition is technically correct, I think that the true meaning of Easter for people of faith gets lost in its emphasis on the scheduling of the Easter Sunday date each year.
I’ve said it before, and it still holds true: To me, Easter is the most important Christian holiday. If Christ hadn’t risen from the dead, then His birth (and death) would have had no more significance to the world than anyone else’s.
But Christ did rise from the dead.
And that makes all the difference in the world.
I don’t presume to judge anyone else’s relationship with God, but I wonder how many of us lose the true meaning of Easter in our emphasis on scheduling our busy Easter Sunday each year. Our Easter baskets, Easter family gatherings, Easter dinners, Easter hats and Easter clothing are all technically “celebrations” of Easter, but they can easily distract us away from reflecting on the true nature of our relationship with God.
It’s almost like we’re so busy planning a party for someone that we forget to invite them.
So, this Easter, please remember that “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
Maybe this video will help.
I hope and pray that He’s alive in your life.
God bless you.
And Happy Easter.
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