Wisdom Nugget: We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to
tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention
to their shining- they just shine.
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| Happy easter |
There was a young man who had been raised as an atheist. He was training to be
an Olympic diver but the only religious influence in his life came from his
outspoken Christian friend. The young diver never really paid much attention to
his friend's sermons, but he heard them often. One night the diver went to the
indoor pool at the college he attended. The lights were all off, but as the
pool had big skylights and the moon was bright, there was plenty of light to
practice by. The young man climbed up to the highest diving board and as he
turned his back to the pool on the edge of the board and extended his arms out,
he saw his shadow on the wall. The shadow of his body in the shape of a cross.
Instead of diving, he knelt down and asked God to come into his life. As the
young man stood, a maintenance man walked in and turned the lights on. The pool
had been drained for repairs.
As Luke says, “Two
others also, who were criminals, were being led away to be put to death...” Like
the young diver, or the criminal, we were all being led away to meet our doom but
somewhere from heaven Jesus came down to earth. He bore the shame on the cross,
became a curse for us. “...cursed is anyone that hangeth on a tree”. Yet
without a grudge, but with so much love took our place, and He died for you,
and for me. As we remember the greatest sacrifice the world will ever know, of
our Saviours’ death, let us rededicate our lives to Him; in word and in our
actions. Even while the Lord was experiencing the physical, emotional and
perhaps even spiritual agony of the cross, still he expressed the divine nature
of His love for man and had the compassion to listen to the pleas of one who
had great need. He repressed his own pain to answer to the needs of a sinner.
He promised that man, the thief, that that very day, He would be in Paradise.
We shall end with a quote by, "In every grave on earth’s green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection
life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate
when the warm south wind of Christ’s return brings back the spring-tide
to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their
graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal
bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life
immortal."
What does Easter mean to you?
Happy Easter!
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