Exclaim the JOYful Truth: HE'S ALIVE!!!

            Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Easter is the perfect time to be drinking the JOY of Jesus!

            In his book If I Should Die Before I Live, Joe LoMusio asks the question:  “If I were to ask you to describe Easter without using any words, you could only use punctuation marks, which punctuation mark would you choose to describe this Easter for yourself? 

            Maybe this Easter is a comma for you.  It makes you stop, pause, think and listen, but that’s about it.  It might be that this season is a downer---a big bold period.  You thought you’d feel excited, but instead it seems to be more like an empty ritual. 

            There was a day when life felt like a period for Jesus’ disciples.  He was dead;    an end to their expectations.  But then they got the news of an empty tomb…the period was no longer a period, but a question mark.  That’s worse than a period.  They were perplexed.  The guards were gone, the stone rolled away.  Where was He?

An angel asks, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen!”  The periods are gone!  The question marks are removed!  There is one massive exclamation point!”

            That’s what Easter is all about….an exclamation of gratitude; of praise for the resurrection of Jesus Christ; for a heart bursting with JOY for the salvation His victory over death brings to us!

            We all should be exclaiming the JOYful truth that Jesus is not dead!  He has risen from the grave!!!