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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Easter Joy is Found at the Foot of the Cross



        Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Easter is the perfect time to be drinking the JOY JUICE of Jesus! Don’t hesitate! Celebrate!

            It’s sad to say that even some Christians forget why Easter should be anticipated and celebrated…with JOY! We have egg hunts and pretty Easter decorations, but often it seems that Easter is treated as just another Sunday. Could it be that the concept of Easter makes people uncomfortable?  It does confront us with a true story of pain, agony and death.  And it was for you and me….because we are sinners!

           Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a courageous German pastor who suffered martyrdom on Hitler’s orders. He wrote these words:

If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find him must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all; it is entirely contrary to it.”

            This Easter, let’s go to the foot of the cross with a heart overflowing with an exclamation of gratitude and a celebration of praise for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

            The JOYful truth that is that Jesus is not dead!  He has risen from the grave!!! 

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