What if you had to describe Easter using only punctuation marks. How would you do it?
Maybe this Easter is a comma for you. Life has been moving pretty quickly, but Easter makes you stop, pause, think and listen. Sometimes we get moments when we are able to re-evaluate the direction of our life. But too often we allow these moments to pass over us and do nothing. When either God places your life on pause or you get a chance to slow down from your hectic life, make sure you use it to move in a more positive direction. Allow God to direct your life. Easter will help you in the right direction.
Perhaps today is a downer – a big bold period. You thought you’d feel excited, but instead it seems to be more of an empty ritual. You feel as if you’re not on the inside, but on the outside…an onlooker. It was this day when life became a period for Jesus’ disciples. He was dead. He was buried. An end to all their expectations.
But wait – news of an empty tomb…the period is no longer a period, it’s a question mark. That’s worse than a period. Now they’re beginning to doubt. Where is He? They’re perplexed. The guards are gone; the stone is rolled away. He is not there. If not there, where? An angel speaks, ‘Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was in Galilee, saying the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and how He must be crucified, and the third day He must rise again?
Of course they remembered! The periods are gone. The question marks are removed. There is one massive exclamation point! That’s what Easter is all about…an exclamation of gratitude and of praise for the resurrection of Jesus Christ and for the salvation His victory over death brought to us.