You are supposed to respond by saying “He is Risen indeed!” in case you didn’t know the saying. Easter is my favorite holiday of the year. I love christmas and I love my birthday and I have a special place in my heart for International Talk like a Pirate day(september 19th…yarrr).Easter is the best. When I was little it meant that we got days off school and CANDY! I always knew that Easter was important, but its hard to see the importance of Easter when there is CANDY.
Easter is important because my whole life and everything I live for comes from the price Jesus had to pay on the Cross. I had this discussion with someone last week about how we see people. She see’s everyone as good. I can’t see them that way because I know myself too well. I think sometimes I can be a “nice” person, but I am not good. From the day I was born I was a sinner. I have no possible way to stand before a perfect God and say “Im pretty good you know”. I know I’m not and God knows it too. The bible says that the wages of sin is death. For me that means that every time I have sinned from my actions to my inactions, I deserve death. Is that fair? Yes. Is that just? Yes.
Jesus came to earth to fix this massive problem! He lived the life I should have lived because he never sinned. He died the death I should have died. Painful, torturous, brutal death on a cross. He paid the price I could not pay. And then, in God amazing Grace he offered his son as payment for my sin to bring me back into a right relationship with him. WOW. All I can say is WOW. Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice for my life. Thank you for your amazing grace and mercy which you poured out on me while I was still a sinner. Thank you for the life I have in you and the life I will have forever because of your death. Thank you for dying in my place for my sin. I haven’t got anything to give you for that gift and nothing I could do would every repay you, but you have my life and I will serve you for all of it with all of my heart and soul and mind and strength. I love you Lord because you first loved me. Thank you for beating down death and coming back to life so I could have a life with you forever! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
He is Risen!!!
