Celebrating Eternal Love
Easter always gives me all the feels. Thinking about how our Savior, Lord and King suffered in the hands of the ones He came to save, yet He bore our sins; past present future, died and rose again and called us victorious.
No matter how hard you try, this story is one that will never get old. Sometimes it’s a real struggle to wrap my head around it — How can someone have enough love in them to do all that? But God did.
Even when we weren’t looking for Him, He sought us out, pulled us out of darkness and breathed life into our dying bones. Christ who knew no sin became sin for our sake.
Often times, a lot of emphasis is put on how bad things were, how broken and helpless we were. Whilst that is true, that’s not us anymore. It is important to pull our gaze away from the former things, and focus on what God has accomplished.
God is doing a new thing, that for me is what Easter represents so, however Easter looks in your culture or home, however you choose to celebrate with your congregation or loved ones; remember the new thing that was made manifest when that veil tore and the ground shook.
Imagine you were in that setting and saw what the soldier saw, that made him proclaim “truly this was the son of God”. What Mary beheld at the empty grave that made her run to call the others, what it must have been like for the apostles to stand in the before the risen Saviour.
I don’t know about you but that wonder transcend ages, it was this very pivotal moments of the supernatural breakthrough that defines our Faith. So whatever ever Easter looks like for you, (time with family, swamped with work, scrolling through your phone all day, or perhaps like me, sitting by yourself and typing away) be encouraged to celebrate the essence of this season (even beyond Easter) and then take some time to ponder on what Christ accomplished for you and the entire world. This season we celebrate an eternal love that went ahead of us, even long before we were created or ever did any wrong.
“Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.” — Eph 1:4
I pray these thoughts stir a desire in you to spread the message of truth in your world and through your actions. May the significance of the Cross never depart from your consciousness.
Indeed light has come
Christ is risen
Death has been defeated
We have direct access to Abba
We are sons of God
And through Christ we are victorious!
Happy Easter!
Written by Uchechi Ezenyirioha
Uchechi is a lover of good food and a nice nap afterwards. She writes from Lagos, Nigeria and oh she does law stuff too.
