Easter Day 2011

 

To the average person in today’s post-Christian era Easter probably conjures up images of Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies. (They were giving away chocolate bunnies in Durban Airport on Tuesday!)

 

However to all who are in a church today it is the most important date in the calendar.

 

It is the day we remember that Christ rose from the tomb and by that act showed the world once, and for all time, that God is victorious over death.

The worst that the devil could throw at Jesus is illustrated in the story of Good Friday.

 

Betrayed, denied, beaten, stripped, nailed to a wooden cross, pierced and killed, it seemed that Jesus, the Son of Man, was little more than a normal man.  Yet God proved that it is He rather than the devil who has final control over life and death.

 

As Jesus had prophesied to His disciples He broke the chains of death and decay when He burst forth from that borrowed grave.

 

Today we can and do still meet with the risen Lord sharing the experience of millions down the ages.

 

The proclamation of Easter “He lives” first voiced by His disciples so long ago is the proclamation we make today because we too know that “He lives”.   

 

With every blessing

 

 

Peter