In Preparation for Easter and the Resurection

I know I am posting quite a bit lately, but the Lord has been talking so much to me lately!

Today is Maundy Thursday, or the Passover. Meaning tomorrow is Good Friday and of course Sunday is Easter!

Tonight is the anniversary of the Passover meal at which Jesus was betrayed by Judas. Can you imagine being betrayed to the authorities by one of your closest friends? Then to know that one of your other friends will deny knowing you three times before the evening was out? Just like Peter did.

Then tomorrow, to have to make the march in front of a jeering crowd to go to your death? And knowing this when you are arrested! Wow. Sometimes knowing what is going to happen is worse than not knowing. But, to know the reason why all of this was happening, would be wonderful! To be able to forgive a criminal's sins while he hung on the cross waiting to die, how wonderful! Not all of us get the chance to have our sins forgiven right before we die, although I hope that we don't wait that long to ask for forgiveness.

In addition to be able to rise from the dead and go to a better place, wonderful! Such a wonderful story we can tell the young children and non-believers that we know! We ought to be celebrating come Sunday, on the anniversary of the resurection and be telling everyone we know what a wonderful thing that our Lord did!

Now I may be bringing this down to human level a little bit too much, but Jesus was a human who walked amongst other humans. He was just special, he was also the Son of God and the choosen one to be sent to forgive all the believer's sins since we are not perfect and will always be sinning.

John 3:16-18 (NKJV): "16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God".

Blessings in Christ,