So Easter has passed, but if you are a Christian, then every day is Easter! So Happy Easter! Again!

 

I wanted to share some thoughts but thought it best to wait until all the bunnies and eggs had disappeared. I’ve never been real sure what bunnies and eggs have to do with the resurrection of Jesus anyway. As the sign said, “Silly rabbit, Easter is for Jesus!” So here are some thoughts to ponder:

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Everyone believes in something, even if that something is nothing or nothingness. Everyone has faith in something, even if that faith is in nothing. And everyone trusts something, even if that trust is in nothing. The atheist trusts that there is no God. The agnostic trusts that his indecision will not be penalized in the end. The Christian trusts that Jesus Christ will make all the difference, both in this life, and the next.

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My 18th year of life included two major events. The first one, in the summer after my senior year of high school (1980), involved a head on auto collision with another car. My friend was driving, and we were both drunk. My head hit the dashboard and I bled profusely. Being drunk, I didn’t really know how badly I was hurt, but thought I was going to die. After an ambulance trip to the hospital and several stitches, I was on my way home.

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A few months later, I found myself owing one (yes one) my football bookies (don’t all 18 year olds have two bookies?) $3600 after losing every game that I had bet on that weekend. It would have been $7200, but he wouldn’t take my final bet, which also would have lost. (So maybe I wasn’t the best at picking the winners!) After telling my bookie that this 18 year old didn’t have the $3600 to pay him, he informed me that my other alternative was to find my body floating in the Trinity River. Not being overly attracted to this idea, I was frightened to say the least, and hoping for a Plan C. It wasn’t that I didn’t like floating, I just didn’t like his idea of floating.

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God used those two events in my life to get my attention. They taught me that there was more to life than living for myself and doing my own thing, a lesson that I am still learning, being a slow learner. They taught me that I couldn’t handle life on my own. But God began to draw my heart to Him through those times, and show me that He had more for me in life than I was experiencing. Only God can use the ugly in life to create the beautiful. He turns darkness into light. It’s what He does.

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After coming home from Weatherford college basketball practice late at night in early 1981, I began to read my dad’s bible without him knowing about it. I didn’t want him to know because I didn’t want to deal with his excitement over finding me reading the bible. But what I read about Jesus drew me away from myself and into Him. I didn’t know exactly what to call it, or how to say it, but I wanted to live my life for Christ from that point on.

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My belief had turned from a nothing type of something, or from a weak selfish tip of the hat to God, to a full commitment to Him, and a following of Him as a way of life. Though I am not near the person I wish to be, God began His good work (Phil. 1:6) in me in early 1981 and still continues that work by His grace alone. To quote the Christian music group Unspoken, “I found life in the death of me.” If you are a Christian, you know exactly what that means. It is the ONLY way a Christian finds life; through his death, by way of Jesus’ death. There is no other path to life.

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If you have not found that life, I ask you to sincerely question your belief, your faith, and your trust. Are they placed in something that will stand the test of time and eternity? Is your something kind of faith in nothing going to deliver you in the end? Do you realize that you, like I, exercise faith? Our faith is just in different things. I pray that you will open your heart and carefully consider the words and implications of the article this post is linked to. You have to believe something about the resurrection of Jesus. As it has been said, Jesus was either the Lord, a liar, or a lunatic. We all believe he was one of those. There are no other options. Which one do you believe He was?

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“And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” Romans 8:11

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So, where is your faith?

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http://crossexamined.org/10-reasons-accept-resurrection-jesus-historical-fact/