Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.How can we joyfully anticipate Easter Sunday’s power without mournfully remembering our weakness? -Christopher Greer.It is such a dramatic, earth-shaking answer that for nearly twenty centuries, artists of every kind and quality have been trying to portray its significance. As My Love moves within your heart, spirit, mind, and will, you will learn what it is truly like to be an Easter person spiritually.We shall never understand the extent of God’s love in Christ at the Cross until we understand that we shall never have to stand before the judgment of God for our sins.And about so much more than just chocolate. Easter can be the highlight of the year.After Your Son lay three days in a dark hole, you turned the darkest Friday into the brightest Sunday.I pray that, as you read this, you will experience, as if for the first time, the scale and wonder of God’s love and come, at the end of Lent, to the great festival of Easter knowing afresh what it means for God to love you and what it means to serve him in the world.Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.Hear his promise that death has no power. Let’s see how Jesus spent his final days. Easter promises that what God does in the resurrection of Jesus is God’s intention for the entire creation.He bore sin’s heavy burden, the deeds of all mankind, the cross brought freedom, now salvation reigns! -Greta Zwaan. It is well documented that not only one person saw Him but hundreds. The resurrection of Jesus is the most amazing miracle of all time.This is a season when we reflect on the suffering, sacrifice, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.Spring is the time of plans and projects.That is one good thing about this world there are always sure to be more springs.The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.Easter is the one morning in all of history when the dawn came twice once on the eastern horizon and again in eternity.For I remember Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all newborn.
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