More than just a Good Friday.

Easter is the most amazing event in our calendar. It thoroughly excites me.

Alarmingly I once recall hearing a group of children trying to figure out what Easter was all about and one girl chipped in with the suggestion that it was about nailing bunnies to crosses! An amusingly macabre image :o)

This weekend is not about commemorating a long forgotten event; it is the celebration of something key to our very own lives today. We celebrate salvation – our rescue. While the whole of the Christian world will be celebrating Easter together it is an incredibly personal time; we remember what Jesus has done just for us, individually. But this is more than just a celebration it is our healing – it’s a sacrifice that makes no sense but it is an immovable and eternal truth.

“But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed.” (Is 53:5 MSG)

I get up early most mornings to play my baby daughter. This means that I get to witness some rather strange TV shows on Cbeebies. One of them is ‘Discover & Do’. This is the epitome of Easter. We have salvation to discover [afresh] but if that is all that happens you will have missed out on the greater joy – Doing. Get out there and share salvation. There is a million ways of doing this but only a few of them involve any verbal communication – show people a salvation life; one full of joy and service and love.

Have a great Easter: He has risen, he has risen indeed!

-Andrew Carey