Hi everyone! Happy Easter! Today I thought I would share a quick thought since it is Easter and there is much celebration to do today. Enjoy!
Happy Easter everyone! When I was growing up, it was all about the Easter basket with the sweet treats. Jellybeans, chocolate, Reese’s peanut butter cups, etc., I enjoyed it all. I even used to love circus peanuts. Each year Brach’s would come out with their Easter version of them called Chicks and Rabbits. I was a circus peanut connoisseur back in my day, and Brach’s had the best ones.
Wondering what circus peanuts are? Well, welcome to the reason they have gone into near extinction. They were those peanut-shaped, weirdly orange colored candy that were essentially a bomb of sugar in your mouth. No one really enjoyed them. Once, I remember getting excited because a cashier at Target said he loved them too! It was the first and last time I heard that confession from anyone else. Don’t worry, I have since outgrown them… mostly.
Today, Easter is still such a great joy to me, but for a different reason. It is not because of the candy (don’t get me wrong, I WILL eat the candy), but because of the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. It is a day of victory. It is a day of remembrance. It is a day of recognizing how deeply the Lord loves us all, so much so that He sent His son on a rescue mission for us. It is knowing deep in our hearts that it counted for us. It counted for me as much as it specifically counted for you. We are not unknown to Him.
Sometimes my logical mind will forget that fact because it is hard for me to conceptualize time in a way that is non-linear. I like to have things in well-constructed, organized processes, but God is far beyond all of that. God is in the present, the past, and the future. Fully understanding what time is to Him and how it cannot confine Him is something I cannot completely grasp, but I am okay with that. However, it does give me pause.
I wonder, and it may be a crazy thought, but since God knows us and He isn’t limited by time, did our faces ever flash before Christ as He hung on the cross? If He thought about all those He was dying to redeem, did He see beyond the crowd that was in front of Him that day, beyond time, and see you? See me? It sounds so personal, but He knows each of us individually. It brings into focus that His death and resurrection counted for us. It reminds us that if it was done only for you, He would have done it all the same.
Well, what I do know is this. Christ loves each one of us to a degree that cannot be fathomed. It was said once that the value of something is often decided by the price someone would pay for it. Christ laid down His priceless life for us. In Him, we are priceless.
Oh, that’s so good! 🙌
I know when I allow sin (like anger) to happen, I have been convicted of the lashes He received from my deliberate outrage.
Hope y’all had a great Resurrection Day!
❤️