easter

easter is the best day of the year
in my opinion.
i love easter week. i love good friday.
so thankful for all of it.
the world's story coming together
in Jesus, the One whose righteousness alone is sufficient
sufficient to remove all sin, guilt, shame, fear
the things that can so often and so easily own our days,
and to replace these things with grace, joy, peace,
the things that - whether we can label them or not - we are all desperately living our lives in search of
but
these human limitations,
our boxed-in comprehensions of what it means to receive something
will never make sense of our undeserved gift,
the greatest self-denial ever known.
this humility of Jesus contrasted against - but somehow also working in tandem with -
the Father's complete power, rooted in His complete love.
it is hard to understand Jesus' death as love
and our sins, gone.
but
when we know the character of God,
we can know that it is His very nature that desires to give Himself
so that we may have life to the full [john 10]
and we can know that Jesus was obedient, even to death
to prove 2 things
that God, the Father, can be trusted no matter how must we must give
and that life comes only from death.
the Resurrection.
the reason we can stand today in assurance that
the God of the universe delights in us.
Jesus says that very few people can say this
because the road is narrow [matthew 7]
but
His Word also states that
in those who believe in Him [with lives that show this to be so clear, bearing fruit] [john 15]
dwells the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. [romans 8.11]
and i, we, can walk in confidence knowing this.
it is finished.
...this day changed everything.