“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” - 2 Corinthians 5:17
We traveled the unknown road leading up to Easter. We wept on Good Friday, pondered through Silent Saturday, and exuberantly rejoiced on Easter Sunday.
And now we live in the After Easter Weeks. We will attend a funeral soon. A friend is still hospitalized with cancer and another family is in the throes of confusion and sadness because their runaway son shows no sign of change. A husband is walking out the door from his wife and children.
Jesus walked and talked with his friends for over a month after His miraculous resurrection. With few exceptions, we are not privy to His words and actions. What we are sure of is that Jesus spoke two profound words which overflowed with both hope and challenge: wait and go. His disciples and friends needed to wait for the promised Holy Spirit power and then go to a hungry, broken world with the resurrection message.
It is no different for us. Through grace and by faith we are filled with the Holy Spirit and we are commissioned to go. We live in the weeks after Easter until He returns.
We traveled the unknown road leading up to Easter. We wept on Good Friday, pondered through Silent Saturday, and exuberantly rejoiced on Easter Sunday.
And now we live in the After Easter Weeks. We will attend a funeral soon. A friend is still hospitalized with cancer and another family is in the throes of confusion and sadness because their runaway son shows no sign of change. A husband is walking out the door from his wife and children.
Jesus walked and talked with his friends for over a month after His miraculous resurrection. With few exceptions, we are not privy to His words and actions. What we are sure of is that Jesus spoke two profound words which overflowed with both hope and challenge: wait and go. His disciples and friends needed to wait for the promised Holy Spirit power and then go to a hungry, broken world with the resurrection message.
It is no different for us. Through grace and by faith we are filled with the Holy Spirit and we are commissioned to go. We live in the weeks after Easter until He returns.
Think about it; So now is the time to go and tell. Begin the journey on the road
with Jesus right beside you. You will never be the same.
Still Hungry? Romans 6:13; Galatians 6:15; Romans 6:4; John
1:13; Revelation 21:4-5
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