The weekend services are over, all hardboiled eggs accounted for, friends and family here and gone; and here we are – the week after Easter. Well, really our celebration of Easter. It is just a day after all. Right?
I admit to getting pretty worked up over the worship services at my church, my women’s bible study, and planning our family’s meal for Sunday afternoon. And I’m not sorry. Not one bit. If there was ever a day to go all out crazy for, it should be Easter Sunday. I mean, it is the game changer, the crux of the entire Christian faith. Jesus is ALIVE!! For heaven’s sake!
And I want that to change my week after Holy Week. I want that to change me.
And it does. He does. He changes me. Because it is His very alive life in me that works this out.
So when your kids go back to school, when you go back to work, to the busy, messy life you were in before you celebrated Easter, rest assured that Christ in you will live His very alive life in you wherever you are. And that life in you is the light that will help bring many sons to glory. That love in you, the God’s love that has been poured into our hearts through Holy Spirit love, will love others around you, even, and especially the hard to love ones.
Our part is to trust. Abide. Believe. Surrender.
We are an Easter people.
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