get ready for easter

Easter is less than three weeks away, and this is the most important day for Christians that we cannot take for granted. More important than Christmas, Easter and the resurrection are literally the central belief of salvation and the Gospel.

God sent John the Baptist to prepare people to know Jesus. God continues to send the story and testimony and life through other people. People like you and me have the opportunity to point others to Jesus.

God has prepared us and the world for Jesus and His death. He is also coming again.

Psalm 45:6-7 NLT

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. You rule with a scepter of justice. 7 You love justice and hate evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.

The throne won’t be one that people expect. His rule is unlike what those before him held. Many will miss Him and even hate Him, but this is something eternal, and something that can never be erased.

This glory of the messiah is wrapped in the ugliness of sin and the beauty and power of God’s unconditional love. The gap between humanity and God was and is so real. But the pain for Jesus was real, too.

That is why Jesus was to come. That is why Jesus came, and that first Easter is to be celebrated again and again.

Get ready, and may we see the beauty that God gave for us on a cruel cross and an empty grave. This is the promise from God for us.

Get ready for Easter.

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