#7) Easter Sunday

 “In the beginning God created…”    Genesis 1:1

Skip to Genesis Chapter 3 verse 26.  

            

            “Then God said, let us make man in our own image and in our own likeness. Let them have rule over the fish of the sea the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

There you will find two small words that most times go unnoticed – ‘us’ and ‘our’...

 

There are at least 2 deities that are at work getting man right.  In John chapter 1 we are told more about the second deity that was working on our behalf, on ‘us’. Here again, we find the words “in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made.  Without Him, nothing was made that has been made.  In Him was life and that life was the light of man.”  John chapter 1 leaves no doubt of the identity of the second person in the trinity.  Like in Genesis chapter 1, it starts out with the words “in the beginning…”.  John chapter 1 speaks of the Christ Jesus, the 'our' and the 'us' spoken of in Genesis.

 

On Palm Sunday, Christ made his triumphant ride into Jerusalem on the back of a humble donkey colt.  The people spread down palm branches before the donkey so that its hooves would never touch the ground.  Days later, Jesus would be tried, convicted and crucified.  For a mere human, this would have been the end of the story but Jesus was no mere human.  On the third day after crucifixion, Easter Sunday, he rose.  The word, the light and the life of all that is, defeated death and rose again.  In so doing, he gave all mankind the hope that death has no power over us.  Our future is guaranteed.

 

Have a joyful Easter Sunday!