| Every year we sing the song, Because He Lives around Easter, reminding us of our risen Savior. I can’t count the number of times I’ve sang this song or the second verse of this song but this year it seems to mean a little more. I’ve got two wonderful children the God blessed my wife and I with. One is six the other thirteen months. While I can’t hold my older one like I used too I can still remember the first time I held him and the first time I held my daughter. The joy that overwhelmed me when I held that little bundle is like nothing I can describe. The pride I had walking out of the delivery room holding my son for everyone to meet for the first time. Calling everyone at 12:30 in the morning waking them up just to tell them that our daughter was born. These are things I’ll treasure all my life. I do worry however about both of their futures and what they will be facing in this evil world. School shootings, bombings, drugs, alcohol, all these things worry me. I’m not always going to be able to protect them no matter how much I want too. At some point I will have to go (not easily). I trust that God will always be by them, protecting and guiding them. I think about what God must have been feeling those last hours that His Son suffered on the cross. No doubt he wanted to do everything to save His Son. God could have sent all the angels of heaven down to save His Son. But He didn’t do that. He knew that unless His Son died on the cross we would all remain lost forever. He also knew that His son would live again and that by His son’s death on the cross sin and death would be defeated forever. Those three days must have seemed like an eternity to Him but oh the Joy when Jesus rose from the grave. I believe the angels shouted praise and glory to God the moment that stone rolled away. Hallelujah!
|
