HAPPY EASTER

Since today is the day we call Resurrection Sunday, I still had not decided what I was going to post this morning when I came to the computer. I had done the "bunny thing" and the "Easter egg thing" and wanted to be more serious today. Reading our e-mail, I discovered Edward Fudge's GracEmail. We get his GracEmail messages regularly. I read them once in a while. My husband always reads them. I read the one this morning and decided I would use a portion of his message for my blog today. This is what it's really all about.

His enemies joke among themselves: "He saved others, but he can't save himself" (Mk. 15:31). They tell the truth, you know. If he is to save others he cannot save himself. In the end it is him or them. Him or us. "Come down from the cross," the mockers cry, "if you are the Son of God!" (Matt. 27:39-40.) He needs only to ask the Father and he will immediately receive 12 legions of heavenly soldiers -- 72,000 fighting angels (Matt. 26:53).

How his thoughts swirl! Does he see the devil smiling? Perhaps. But a different scene has captured his attention. In his mind he sees the future -- a panorama of redeemed men and women and children too numerous to count, rising from the dead and meeting him in the air, his brothers and sisters sharing glory with him throughout eternity. He makes the choice. "For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame" (Heb. 12:2). The mockers have it wrong. Because he is the Son of God he will not come down from the cross. He will save others and not himself. And praise God, he did!

Thank you, Edward Fudge for this insight.

My prayer for each of you is that you have a BLESSED EASTER SUNDAY!