The Easter Season

If you ask a child, "What do you think of when you hear 'Easter?'" the answer will most likely consist of the easter bunny, easter eggs, candy, and presents. Why is this their answer? Because Easter has become like most holidays: a time for businesses to thrive, kids to get hyped up on chocolate, and the true meaning of a holy day(Holy day. Holiday. Get it?) goes down the drain.

Sure. I like the Reese's Cups shaped like eggs. But I can get chocolate anytime of the year. Should this be what we look forward to at Easter? No. The Easter egg hunts? No. New movies about bunnies and chicks which hide the true meaning of Easter? No.

It is a time to celebrate the day that Christ rose from the dead giving life to everyone that believes on His name! Now that sounds like a reason to celebrate.

Today is Good Friday, a day in which we remember the day Jesus died and shed His blood on the cross. On this Good Friday as children around the world sing about Earth, I choose to sing about my King who died to bring me life!

And as Easter becomes more commercialized, it is time for Christians to rise up and not just tell the world, but also show the world what Easter is really about. Jesus Christ rose from the dead, breaking the chains of death and giving us the power to life!
"We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life."-Romans 6:4

Have a blessed Easter full of the hope of Christ!

"There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand"