The Hope of Easter
Oh!! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope! (Romans 15:13, The Message)
The greatest gift that God has given the world is the hope that is found in the Easter message. Death has been conquered and we don't have to fear it anymore. It has truthfully been said that we can only truly live once we no longer fear death - that is the hope we can hold onto and proclaim to our world.
It is a hope that reminds us again and again - whatever you are going through, however bleak things may seem, whatever challenges are in front of you - you can stare them right in the face and KNOW that this is not all there is. That there is a God who loves you more than you can ever know, that there is an eternity available to all right now, and that God desires for you a fulness of life that is more than the sum of our current experiences. That the God who created everything that is seen and everything that is unseen, desires to enter into your experience and walk with you.
May you know the power and the hope of the resurrected Christ this Easter!