3 Reasons to Celebrate the Resurrection
Around this time of year, our collective focus begins to point towards the next season. We spring our clocks forward, trees begin to bud, and store displays start to advertise the quickly approaching Easter holiday. After Valentine’s Day ends, we are inundated with floral dresses, yellow chicks, jellybean eggs and larger than life chocolate bunnies.
As Christians, this onslaught of marketing has the potential to make us forget what the resurrection of Jesus Christ is truly about. There is a temptation instead to blend in with the cultural crowd and set our sights on all of the traditions surrounding this time. To do so, however, would be to miss the many ways Christ’ s sacrifice permanently changed our lives for the better.
I believe there are three main reasons why we fail to live with an awareness of God’s great sacrifice for humanity. Either we don’t understand the weight of our sin, we forget what it took to redeem us from it, or we do not realize how bad off we would be if Jesus had not been resurrected.
