April has a late Easter this year.  In the rush for new Easter clothes, for Easter baskets and dyed eggs, for Easter Sunday dinner with family, and for the resurrection celebration, let us not forget the sacrifice that our Savior made on the cross.  The false accusations, the beatings, the ordeal of carrying the heavy cross, the excruciating pain of having the nails driven through His extremities, and the slow agony of hanging on the cross with His side pierced all make our worries and problems minuscule in comparison.  However, the real sacrifice was accepting the sins of the entire world, past, present, and future, upon His sinless Being.  The physical agony of the cross was nothing compared to the burden of accepting all our iniquities upon Himself.  Perhaps His cry, “My God, why have you forsaken me?” implies that God turned away momentarily while all our sins entered His fleshly incarnation of Jesus, and the death of Jesus took all those sins away.  Don’t rush to the empty tomb so fast; remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for you.  When we sin, we crucify Him afresh by ignoring His great sacrifice.  Keep your eyes on the cross, and remember that it points to heaven.

Let the love of Christ envelope you this Easter season, and always.

 

Peace,

Jon