SUBJECT: A HAPPY AND HOLY EASTER TO YOU

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.

Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior’s hand

Psalm 127: 3 & 4

"HOPE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE"

It is that time of year again when we celebrate this holy season of Easter.

Every day there is more and more evidence of an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, sadness, anger and just very challenging times all around. Is this because we are putting our trust and faith in man, in our systems, in ourselves? Well this could be why we are experiencing this much misery at this time.

1 Corinthians 15 verse 19 (KJV), says, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are all men most miserable.” In essence this verse is saying that we are not to look too much for hope here on earth, or we will be like men most miserable and look, this is really what is happening. Let me remind us, that we need to put or hope and trust in God and then the “things of this earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace.”

Psalms 43 verse 5 (KJV), also says, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

This is the reason that Christ sent his only son to give us this hope, so that we do not go around looking all tired and bent over from the cares of this life, but instead go around with healthy looking countenances, because we do know this hope. We are indeed product of this hope.

Every time I think of this great sacrifice that God made, in sending his only son to die for us, I know I could not do it with my one and only son, who took over a decade to show up. This is why it’s just God and God alone who is capable of such things.

Let us truly reflect on the reason God did this unselfish act for us, and let us not mind too much or wonder why all that is happening around us, is really happening, as these things are just signs of the times. All we as children of God need to do, is to put our hope in Him even more, as he so wants us to do.

Let us therefore use this time as one for, Reflection, Recommitment and Renewal.