It comes every year! For some of us church and
Easter are always new clothes, pictures and candy and a long, packed church. It
has happened so many times it is routine. Routine, Easter routine can that even
be possible? If it is routine maybe no difference maybe all the difference. The
preacher is going to preach about the cross, the death and the empty tomb. He
does every year about the same way. Maybe you know the story AND the sermon
already. So, why go to church at all. You already know how the story turns out
and you wonder if there is a point anyway. That is the routine and then it’s
done and so are you. Let’s eat.
Seems like a lot to do about nothing. That’s what is
important the “nothing.” The focus of Easter is not the cross the method of
death. It’s not the counting of time and days or the exact location. It’s not
even the borrowed grave. It’s the “nothing” in the hole revealed on Sunday. The
empty tomb is the message of Easter. That nothing where something should be is
the thing.
How could nothing be something? Because Jesus was
alive and then killed D-E-A-D, no swooning or fainting he was dead Rome was
sure of that. Nothing in the tomb as those women discovered on Sunday morning
is proof that he is alive. The proof of his words being true! This nothing
where there should be something means where there is death there can be life, where
there is sin there can be forgiveness, where there is despair there can be hope
and where there is defeat there can be victory! Now THAT is something out of
nothing.
As I went outside this morning to walk with the dog
the moon illuminated the yard so there was no need for a flashlight. It was
easy to see. But the moon makes no light. It is nothing but a dead, barren,
atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting this planet. It is nothing really. But
this morning it was something because it reflects the light of the sun. Nothing
became something because of…you got it the resurrection.
Nothing becomes something when we believe in the “nothing”
of the empty tomb!
Say
the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s
work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it.
You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to
do it for you. That’s salvation. Romans 10:9 The Message
That belief takes us from the dead to the living,
from the sinner to the saved, from the impossible to the possible. It is not
behavior modification it is radical, earth shaking transformation into the very
image of Jesus Christ. Something we tried to do but failed. We are like the
moon, not the source still nothing but a hunk of flesh but He the SON makes us
radiate with his life and light for all to see.
There you go, something out of nothing.
If you believe! You can if you will!
In HIS Service and Yours,
Bro G
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