The Easter Story Continues – March 31, 2002
It was an early spring morning. Grieving women made their way to a garden sepulcher. They had prepared spices and ointments to anoint the lifeless body of their Master. But arriving at an empty tomb, they heard angels proclaiming: “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.”1
They remembered Jesus had said, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”2 Now they knew it was true, and the women proclaimed the glorious news: Christ had risen. There was, as He had promised, life after death.
But the Easter story is not complete with an empty tomb and a vision of what lies after death. In Jesus we can find a new life now, a new life before the grave. For Christ said, “He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”3 The Easter story continues so long as men and women find a new life by losing their lives in service to the Master.
So the Easter story continues when we break our bread and share it with those who hunger. It continues when we spend time with someone lonely or ill, or when we are generous with our praise and encouragement. The Easter story continues when we take the first step to end a quarrel or find it in our hearts to forgive.
In fact, Easter will continue so long as people realize that in giving life away they will find it.
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1. Luke 24:5-6.
2. John 11:25.
3. Matthew 10:39