He is Risen!

In just about two hours it will be Easter Sunday. This is a day I now look forward to each year as a way to remember the amazingness of Jesus. I am still relatively new to Christianity, in the past four years my life has changed and I have grown immensely in my faith, but I think the short amount of time allows me to have a childlike awe for Easter (and Christmas).

My first Easter as a believer was an amazing day; the day I was baptized. Mind you I didn't have an instantaneous conversion, God had been working on me for YEARS (looking back I can see where He had his hands in my life), but this day will forever be one of my favourite days. God reached out and pulled me up from the pit of despair that day. This Easter Sunday, four years ago, was the day I surrendered my life to the Lord of all creation.

Even now, I have a hard time understanding His love, why would He love someone, or a whole people (the Israelites) for that matter, who HATED Him? Love is something that is so conditional in my human mind that I still have days where I question how God could love me. But He does! He entered into this earth He created and lived a pure and blameless life so that I could be in relationship with Him. He loves me so much that if I were the only person alive he still would have taken on my sin so that I would not have to spend eternity apart from God.

There are days when I doubt, or question why He would love me, this is my flesh speaking, my sinful flesh. I KNOW that God loves me because of the wonderful work he has done in my life. I still struggle to serve Him with my whole life, as every person does, but I fight to stay in His presence because anything less just isn't good enough for me.

I am a child of God, bought and paid for with the blood of the Lamb, my Savoiur Jesus Christ! I enjoy Easter Sunday the most because it is a day when the reality of who Jesus is, and what he did for me, is everywhere. Resurrection Sunday. He defeated death, so that I may have eternal life. I don't understand how, but I know it to be true.