An Easter message
He is risen!
If you were looking for eggs, cute bunnies, and baskets of candy, you came to the wrong place. This is what Easter really means, expressed in Matthew 28:
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
That’s the opening to the last chapter of the Book of Matthew, where he details the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. As a society, we’ve become so caught up in the worldly trappings I described earlier that we forget the real purpose is to celebrate Jesus overcoming death in order to assure us everlasting life should we choose to believe on Him.
Recently I changed the tagline of this Substack to refer to the parable in Matthew 13:3-8, the parable of the sower. While I can gladly take on the role of the missionary with my writing talents, I’ve become convinced that my earthly task is to be the one who works to remove the thorns and rocks from the soil to allow the seed to better sprout. It’s a soil that allows its biggest harvest in a free society, like the one our divinely-inspired Founding Fathers sought to create.
Part of that task is to gently remind people on occasion that we have a perfectly free gift available to us, the gift of salvation.
In a reminder of that, my colleagues at The Patriot Post put up an annual message on Good Friday, with the purpose being thus:
To our readers of faiths other than Christianity, we welcome you to consider reading, and we hope that these meditations serve to deepen your understanding of our faith — the faith of so many of our Founders.
It’s likely most of my readers are Christian, but if not this is your invitation to understand what faithful Christians celebrate today. He is risen!