Dare 2 Share - "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen" (Luke 24:5-6)
All around this nation the signs of life are returning to lifeless surroundings. Winter brought cold, death, and darkness; now spring returns to bring warmth, life, and light.
Ever feel like there are seasons that go on inside your spirit? The ‘wintertime’ of disappointments, broken dreams, and failures can kill your emotions and freeze your soul. The “Jack Frost” of our spiritual life is Satan, and he wants us to believe that the iciness of your inner-self will never thaw.
Perhaps that is how the disciples felt just before the dawn of the first Easter morning. They had spent three years with the Light of the World, yet in one day that light was snuffed out and stuffed in a tomb. Can you imagine the confusion, anguish, and darkness that they must have felt? Can you picture the evil celebration that occurred among the prince of darkness and his minions?
It must have seemed like the dark night of the world’s soul would last forever, yet on that Sunday morning a heavenly alarm sounded so deafening that it shattered the frozen fortress of despair forever. “He is not here, he is risen!”
Have you heard the forecast? The winter storm watch is over- the season of the Savior is here! The darkness of your existence has been abolished, and you are invited to walk in the light. Easter Sunday should call into mind the question asked by the Apostle Paul:
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things? Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8:31-39)
This Easter season, let us not “seek the living among the dead”. Let your friends know about the good news of Jesus Christ. Celebrate the resurrection of the Savior from the depths of your soul. The enemy may send threatening storms of shadow and gloom, but keep in mind that Christ is always behind the clouds. Sunday is a clear reminder that though life is difficult, death is defeated.
Questions:
(1) What difference does the resurrection make in your attitude, actions, and relationships?
(2) Are their people in your life who “seek the living among the dead”? How can you help remedy that?
