He Is Risen!

 Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi

Christ is risen indeed!

The Garden Tomb, Jerusalem.

I hope you have had an opportunity to celebrate Resurrection Sunday!  

I think we celebrate Easter and kinda forget that, you know, Jesus actually did come out of the grave.  We have so much mythology in our culture...Greek, Roman, Norse...that I think it gets easy for us to, well, not exactly put the narrative of Jesus on that level, but yeah, put the miraculous of the narrative on that level.  2000 years later, it's easy to let the story of the Resurrection become a story instead of history.

If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith....And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins...If only for this life we have hope in Christ, then we are to be pitied more than all men. -- 1 Cor. 15:14, 16, 19, NIV 84

If it didn't happen, Christianity is a farce at the best and a tragic hoax at the worst.

But.  It really happened. We have eyewitness accounts. 

Two seasons of the year always leave me in awe...Christmas and Easter.  Because it overwhelms me to think he would actually leave his existence in glory to take on the existence of a human...but beyond that, being born as a human, growing up subject to humans, and walking amongst humans who refused to see Truth when it was standing in front of them.  And then to go beyond that and submitting to the arrest, trial, abuse, and crucifixion by those same blind stupid humans.  He didn't have to, you know.

But he did it.  Because that was the only way to reconcile mankind back to himself.  

Because he truly loves us.