Easter..my favorite holiday!
This is my all time favorite season.
Coming into Easter gives me the most joy inside.
One, I know that summer will be here (in a few months!) and most importantly, it's everything that hinges my faith in Christ.
The bible is great and all and packed full of wisdom and truths, but without the resurrection, it would probably motivate me to just live better.
As Spring starts to show up, everything that looked dead starts to come alive..as if nature paints a huge arrow that something miraculous is going on.
We can't see it, but we have come to know what is happening.
And the seasons of my heart have been through this transformation, too.
There were seasons where I felt as if I was hanging off a cliff, hanging off a rope and a few times I swore that rope got smaller and turned into a tiny string!
I probably handled things poorly.
Actually, I know I did.
Adulting is hard work..harder with kids, right..?
In fact I always say this comment, "well, I'm not perfect!" And this is true, very true, no one is. No one even pretends to be.
Which is why I believe that Easter is pivotal.
Realizing I'm not perfect, and how poorly I handle things when its hard..perhaps I had better rest my faith that I'm pretty bad at this life sometimes.
I need to know I'm forgiven.
Perhaps, even forgivable.
Recently, I heard this story about the friends lowering their paralytic buddy into a roof in Mark 2:4.
The story where the friends lower their paralytic buddy down for Jesus to heal them and Jesus tells the paralytic this, "son, your sins are forgiven."
Can you imagine wanting desperately to be healed but you hear Jesus say your sins are forgiven..but wait a minute..how come he didn't start with "you are healed...?
I can relate.
For once in my life I fully put my faith in Jesus for a miracle to happen, and healing didn't come, but beautifully..very beautifully...he threw so much grace and love and forgiveness at me..oceans of it..the type of love you don't get from anyone.
The all knowing love that he saw me at my worst..and loved me just as much.
Receiving it was hard, though, I'm not going to lie.
I thought you are supposed to get yourself together first. But, I found that its not something I could earn.
Humbly, I started to unwrap this gift..and at some point healing did occur for me, although, not in the way I would have imagined it.
There was no miraculous event, like in the story of the paralytic.
It came slowly over time, and not even fully...not yet.
But, my heart changed.
And this is why Easter is something I love to celebrate.
Coming into Easter gives me the most joy inside.
One, I know that summer will be here (in a few months!) and most importantly, it's everything that hinges my faith in Christ.
The bible is great and all and packed full of wisdom and truths, but without the resurrection, it would probably motivate me to just live better.
As Spring starts to show up, everything that looked dead starts to come alive..as if nature paints a huge arrow that something miraculous is going on.
We can't see it, but we have come to know what is happening.
And the seasons of my heart have been through this transformation, too.
There were seasons where I felt as if I was hanging off a cliff, hanging off a rope and a few times I swore that rope got smaller and turned into a tiny string!
I probably handled things poorly.
Actually, I know I did.
Adulting is hard work..harder with kids, right..?
In fact I always say this comment, "well, I'm not perfect!" And this is true, very true, no one is. No one even pretends to be.
Which is why I believe that Easter is pivotal.
Realizing I'm not perfect, and how poorly I handle things when its hard..perhaps I had better rest my faith that I'm pretty bad at this life sometimes.
I need to know I'm forgiven.
Perhaps, even forgivable.
Recently, I heard this story about the friends lowering their paralytic buddy into a roof in Mark 2:4.
The story where the friends lower their paralytic buddy down for Jesus to heal them and Jesus tells the paralytic this, "son, your sins are forgiven."
Can you imagine wanting desperately to be healed but you hear Jesus say your sins are forgiven..but wait a minute..how come he didn't start with "you are healed...?
I can relate.
For once in my life I fully put my faith in Jesus for a miracle to happen, and healing didn't come, but beautifully..very beautifully...he threw so much grace and love and forgiveness at me..oceans of it..the type of love you don't get from anyone.
The all knowing love that he saw me at my worst..and loved me just as much.
Receiving it was hard, though, I'm not going to lie.
I thought you are supposed to get yourself together first. But, I found that its not something I could earn.
Humbly, I started to unwrap this gift..and at some point healing did occur for me, although, not in the way I would have imagined it.
There was no miraculous event, like in the story of the paralytic.
It came slowly over time, and not even fully...not yet.
But, my heart changed.
And this is why Easter is something I love to celebrate.
3Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
6Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? 9Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? 10But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, 11“I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 12He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
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