A Three Day Story

“Easter Sunday is the culmination of three of the most important days in the history of the world…

His life was leading to this one point, this one apex, it was not the sermon on the mount, the feedings of thousands, or even transfiguration… but His death…

All of history hinges on this one moment of time…

The cross was not an abstract idea to Jesus and His disciples. During Jesus’ day there were at least 18 people that would make very public claims of being the Messiah, and all would meet the fate of the cross… but being the true Messiah His cross would be different…

The true Messiah’s calling, in Jesus’ eyes, would not be to conquer, but in love for others to die in their place…

Jesus bore the cross from a position of authority… He was no victim, He chose for love’s sake to die. Our sin required a sacrifice and in love He would take our place…

Good Friday would prove; “The power of embraced sacrifice is greater than the power of coercion.”

The problem with three day stories is that you don’t know it’s a three day story until it’s the third day…

This is the day after a prayer gets prayed, and before a prayer gets answered, it’s a day of silence…

We can stay here if we want, but why… there is a time for mourning, but there is also a time for hope… do we really want to live lives of disappointment management…

Many will never chose to look in Hope toward Sunday, but live in a perpetual state of hopelessness…

There is another option, we can choose to work with God and in patience, and faith, wait on God and wait with God…

In mourning we don’t expect others to have all the answers, but there is something about presence, and as we work in that we can look to the hope of Sunday…

This perpetual state of hopelessness doesn’t have to be our fates…

Saturday Jesus was in the grave. If Jesus can be found in a grave He can be found anywhere, including our most hopeless “estates” our most hopeless places…

Easter is the promise of the resurrection for those that are in a living and active relationship with God…

But it is also a call to join Him in death. Easter both calls us to an empty tomb and a cross…

On Sunday our lives didn’t get safer, but they got a lot more dangerous…

God invites us to die to self and to live in Him… The idea here is this: No sacrifice, No harvest… unless we die to ourselves we cannot know His resurrecting power… without Good Friday there is no Easter…

Our cross, just as Christ’s was, is a voluntary one; will we finally choose to die to self and live in Him and know the full power of the resurrection of Christ…

God is calling us this Easter to be resurrected in Christ, be we first finally die to those things that are holding us back and give ourselves to Him…”

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