He is Risen!

We easily embrace the beauty of Christ's death for we can see our need of it so clearly. As we we feel the weight lifted from our shoulders by leaving our sin at the cross and as we see that ultimate portrayal of love fulfilling our deep longing to be loved - our hearts leap. We somberly rejoice for "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us." 1 John 3:16

This is good, it is great! and of course we should rejoice and our hearts should be stirred as we embrace this love which we see through his death - but let us never stop there and so miss the power of his resurrection. As we see our need for forgiveness and our longing to be loved which is answered by his death, let us also see our need for his POWER which enables us live in the fullness of new life that he has given us through his resurrection. Let us have hearts that, once they have embraced his love and forgiveness, would ardently desire to "Know Christ and the Power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so somehow to attain the resurrection from the dead!" Phil 3:10-11.

He is risen indeed!