Its Easter Sunday, all around the world children and adults alike will be tucking into chocolate eggs, telling stories about the easter bunny and enjoying the long weekend with family and friends. While I agree that having time off work and eating chocolate is wonderful I sometimes wonder if people have forgotten why we are eating those yummy eggs and why we are having a holiday. I love Easter. Not just because I can eat chocolate for breakfast and get away with it but I love it because of what it is about. What Easter stands for. I love Easter because of my saviours sacrifice for me and because of the resurrection and the atonement and the wonderful joy that it brings to all of our lives.
Easter, just like Christmas, is all about the saviour!!! At Easter we celebrate the fact that he not only died for our sins and the sins, pains and afflictions of the entire world, but that he rose again!!!! We celebrate the resurrection of Christ!! That resurrection and the saviours atoning sacrifice allows each and every one of us to live again!!!!!! Christ conquered the grave for all of us. What a beautiful and wonderful thing. I can not and will never be able to fully understand the saviours sacrifice, I will never fully understand the atonement or the pain and suffering he went through for me, but what I don know and what I do understand is how much he loves me and how much I in turn love him and how grateful I am for all he has done for me.
Because of him we can start again, guilt becomes peace, hope takes the place of despair, we are given second chances, clean slates and new beginnings.
I know that my redeemer lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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