In our house Easter always had the same sort of excitement that Christmas had … in some ways even more.

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 I can still remember all the excitement beforehand as people got ready for the day – not just the egg coloring which really engaged my sisters – but also the excitement in my parents as they read devotionals … you could tell they knew something BIG was fixing to happen.  As a teenager I remember my older brothers and sisters coming back home for Easter, and when I woke up I always had a shoe full of candy under my bed on Easter morning.  Even 15 years later when I had my own house, and would lock the doors every night, my sister (the Easter Bunny) would find a way to get in and put candy in my shoe under my bed without my knowledge.  Easter was BIG.  

As a Christian adult – I have learned the deeper meaning of Easter – which is a new beginning, and not a new beginning for parts of our life, but a new beginning in everything.  This new beginning not only has to do with what Christ did – but also what God did.  It is clear that Christ did not raise Himself from the dead – God, the Father, did it.  In fact, Christ did nothing on His own – He did everything through God the Father.

 
2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 is a good reminder of what Easter is: 
“Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.  The old life is gone; a new life has begun!  And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ.  And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.  For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.  And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.  So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal through us.  We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”  For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.” 

Let us never get tired of hearing this good news.  And never get tired of telling it to other people through our excitement about Easter.  
 

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                                    All glory and honor to God.  Peace and blessings, Tim.