March 23, 2008
He is risen indeed!
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And…the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.”
~Luke 24:1-6a
March 21, 2008
Some thoughts for the day…
“He {Jesus} was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned–every one–to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
~Isaiah 53:3-6 (ESV)
Peter said of Jesus:
“He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
~1 Peter 2:22-24
God loves us. He loves us so much He sent His precious Son, Jesus, to suffer and die for us. That is why today is “Good” Friday. The death of Christ brings us hope. A hope we can experience if we trust in what Jesus did for us some two thousand years ago. He died to set us free from the punishment of sin and death; but not only did He die, He conquered death by raising from the dead, showing us His power and victory over death. As Christians, Easter–resurrection Sunday–should be looked upon as the greatest of all days, for without it there is no hope.
Several months back I picked up a little book by John Piper called The Passion of Jesus Christ: Fifty Reasons Why He Came to Die. If you need some things to meditate on this Easter season, consider this. It is available to read online here at the Desiring God Ministries website.
Even better to read…God’s Word.
“Now I would remind you… of the gospel {good news!}…that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time…”
~1 Corinthians 15:1-6
February 14, 2008
“For God so loVed the world,
That He gAve
His onLy
BegottEn
SoN,
That whoever
Believes In Him
Should Not perish,
But have Eternal life.”
~John 3:16
Praying you experience the greatest love of all this Valentine’s Day!
